Immersed and virtually embedded -injective surfaces in graph manifolds.
This paper is mainly intended as a survey of the recent work of a number of authors concerning certain infinite group actions on spheres and to raise some as yet unanswered questions. The main thrust of the current research in this area has been to decide what topological and geometrical properties characterise the infinite conformal or Möbius groups. One should then obtain reasonable topological or geometrical restrictions on a subgroup G of the homeomorphism group of a sphere which will imply...
Let be a compact connected oriented surface with one boundary component, and let be the fundamental group of . The Johnson filtration is a decreasing sequence of subgroups of the Torelli group of , whose -th term consists of the self-homeomorphisms of that act trivially at the level of the -th nilpotent quotient of . Morita defined a homomorphism from the -th term of the Johnson filtration to the third homology group of the -th nilpotent quotient of . In this paper, we replace groups...
We obtain a series of new integral formulae for a distribution of arbitrary codimension (and its orthogonal complement) given on a closed Riemannian manifold, which start from the formula by Walczak (1990) and generalize ones for foliations by several authors. For foliations on space forms our formulae reduce to the classical type formulae by Brito-Langevin-Rosenberg (1981) and Brito-Naveira (2000). The integral formulae involve the conullity tensor of a distribution, and certain components of the...