A note on codimension-1 foliations
Generalized flag structures occur naturally in modern geometry. By extending Stefan's well-known statement on generalized foliations we show that such structures admit distinguished charts. Several examples are included.
In this paper we prove that holomorphic codimension one singular foliations on have no non trivial minimal sets. We prove also that for , there is no real analytic Levi flat hypersurface in .
We use known results on the characteristic rank of the canonical –plane bundle over the oriented Grassmann manifold to compute the generators of the –cohomology groups for . Drawing from the similarities of these examples with the general description of the cohomology rings of we conjecture some predictions.
We compute the height of the third Stiefel--Whitney characteristic class of the canonical bundles over some infinite classes of Grassmann manifolds of five dimensional vector subspaces of real vector spaces.
In this short note we give an elementary combinatorial argument, showing that the conjecture of J. Fernández de Bobadilla, I. Luengo-Velasco, A. Melle-Hernández and A. Némethi [Proc. London Math. Soc. 92 (2006), 99-138, Conjecture 1] follows from Theorem 5.4 of Brodzik and Livingston [arXiv:1304.1062] in the case of rational cuspidal curves with two critical points.
Heegaard splittings and Heegaard diagrams of a closed 3-manifold are translated into the language of Morse functions with Morse-Smale pseudo-gradients defined on . We make use in a very simple setting of techniques which Jean Cerf developed for solving a famous pseudo-isotopy problem. In passing, we show how to cancel the supernumerary local extrema in a generic path of functions when . The main tool that we introduce is an elementary swallow tail lemma which could be useful elsewhere.
The following problem of Markus and Yamabe is answered affirmatively: Let f be a local diffeomorphism of the euclidean plane whose jacobian matrix has negative trace everywhere. If f(0) = 0, is it true that 0 is a global attractor of the ODE dx/dt = f(x)? An old result of Olech states that this is equivalent to the question if such an f is injective. Here the problem is treated in the latter form by means of an investigation of the behaviour of f near infinity.