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Singular Riemannian Foliations are particular types of foliations on Riemannian manifolds, in which leaves locally stay at a constant distance from each other. Singular Riemannian Foliations in round spheres play a special role, since they provide "infinitesimal information" about general Singular Riemannian Foliations…

Classifies foliations on CROSSes.

We prove that any smooth foliation that admits a Riemannian foliation structure has a well-defined basic signature, and this geometrically defined invariant is actually a foliated homotopy invariant. We also show that foliated homotopic maps between Riemannian foliations induce isomorphic maps on basic Lichnerowicz coh…

Study on tautness tensor for Riemannian foliations.

Haefliger cohomology characterizes taut foliated manifolds by Haefliger's theorem. We show that Haefliger cohomology characterizes strongly tense foliated manifolds, namely, foliated manifolds which admit a Riemannian metric such that the mean curvature form of the leaves is closed and basic. We show that Haefliger coh…

Simplified proof of foliation closure theorem for linear foliations.

Paper introduces entropy for Riemannian foliations and connects it to Ricci flow.

We determine the structure of the fundamental group of the regular leaves of a closed singular Riemannian foliation on a compact, simply connected Riemannian manifold. We also study closed singular Riemannian foliations whose leaves are homeomorphic to aspherical or to Bieberbach manifolds. These foliations, which we c…

In this paper we present some new results on the tautness of Riemannian foliations in their historical context. The first part of the paper gives a short history of the problem. For a closed manifold, the tautness of a Riemannian foliation can be characterized cohomologically. We extend this cohomological characterizat…

We show that a Riemannian foliation on a topological $n$-sphere has leaf dimension 1 or 3 unless n=15 and the Riemannian foliation is given by the fibers of a Riemannian submersion to an 8-dimensional sphere. This allows us to classify Riemannian foliations on round spheres up to metric congruence.

Consider a singular Riemannian foliation (s.r.f for short) on a compact manifold. By successive blow-ups along the strata, we construct a regular Riemannian foliation on another compact Riemannian manifold and a desingularization map that projects leaves of the regular Riemannian foliation into leaves of the s.r.f. Thi…

In this paper, we use the methods of subriemannian geometry to study the dual foliation of the singular Riemannian foliation induced by isometric Lie group actions on a complete Riemannian manifold M. We show that under some conditions, the dual foliation has only one leaf.

Survey on Killing foliations with technical advantages.

The leaf space of a Killing Riemannian foliation is a diffeological quasifold.

First, we survey some results on classical and quantum dynamical systems associated with transverse Dirac operators on Riemannian foliations. Then we illustrate these results by two examples of Riemannian foliations: a foliation given by the fibers of a fibration and a linear foliation on the two-dimensional torus.

The article derives integral formulas for foliated sub-Riemannian manifolds.

The paper studies Morse theory for Lie algebra actions on Riemannian foliations.

In this paper we survey on some recent results on Riemannian orbifolds and singular Riemannian foliations and combine them to conclude the existence of closed geodesics in the leaf space of some classes of singular Riemannian foliations (s.r.f.), namely s.r.f. that admit sections or have no horizontal conjugate points.…

Positive curvature forces foliation leaf spaces to have boundaries.

Study uses blow-up method to analyze foliations in Riemannian geometry.

Defines basic Albanese maps for foliated Riemannian manifolds.

Study on harmonic maps on weighted Riemannian foliations.

The purpose of this Note is to prove that each of the following conditions is equivalent to that of the foliation ${\cal F}$ is riemannian: 1) the lifted foliation ${\cal F}^{r}$ on the bundle of $r$-transverse jets is riemannian for an $r\geq 1$; 2) the foliation ${\cal F}_{0}^{r}$ on the slashed ${\cal J}_{0}^{r}$ is…

The study limits the number of specific foliations with bounded geometry.

Study foliations on Riemannian manifolds with specific vector fields, focusing on geometric properties.

Proves conjecture about foliations on curved spaces.

Survey on collapsing manifolds using group actions and foliations.

The article proves integral formulas for foliated sub-Riemannian manifolds.

Paper classifies fibers of fat Riemannian submersions with non-negative curvature.

In this paper we characterise with the matrix the complete flag of riemannian extension (see définition) on a riemannian compact manifold whose metric is bundlelike for any foliation F_{s} of this flag. This study show us that a foliation of a complete flag of riemannian extension on a riemannian compact manifold whose…

Motivated by Gray's work on tube formulae for complex submanifolds of complex projective space equipped with the Fubini-Study metric, Riemannian foliations of projective space are studied. We prove that there are no complex Riemannian foliations of any open subset of $\mathbb{P}^n$ of codimension one. As a consequence …

We prove that a foliation $(M, F)$ of codimension $q$ on a $n$-dimen\-sio\-nal pseudo-Riemannian manifold is pseudo-Riemannian if and only if any geodesic that is orthogonal at one point to a leaf is orthogonal to every leaf it intersects. We show that on the graph $G = G(F)$ of a pseudo-Riemannian foliation there exis…

A leafwise Hodge decomposition was proved by Sanguiao for Riemannian foliations of bounded geometry. Its proof is explained again in terms of our study of bounded geometry for Riemannian foliations. It is used to associate smoothing operators to foliated flows, and describe their Schwartz kernels. All of this is extend…

Investigates singular Finsler foliations on $(α,β)$-spaces and their relation to Riemannian foliations.

A singular foliation on a complete riemannian manifold M is said to be riemannian if each geodesic that is perpendicular at one point to a leaf remains perpendicular to every leaf it meets. We prove that the regular leaves are equifocal, i.e., the end point map of a normal foliated vector field has constant rank. This …

Proves existence of sphere foliations with prescribed mean curvature on Riemannian manifolds.

Generalizes Molino's theory for Riemannian foliations.

Proves conjecture about geodesic foliations in Riemannian planes.

Study shows how to deform foliated manifolds with flat leaves, leading to geometric characterization.

The paper studies critical points of horizontal energy functional in Riemannian foliations.

The paper proves new comparison theorems for sub-Laplacian in foliations with minimal leaves.

We prove localization and integration formulas for the equivariant basic cohomology of Riemannian foliations. As a corollary we obtain a Duistermaat-Heckman theorem for transversely symplectic foliations.

Study on transverse Ricci solitons on compact foliated manifolds.

Sphere theorems extended to Riemannian foliations with new results on curvature and leaf spaces.

The paper studies metrics with constant scalar curvature on foliated manifolds.

On a compact foliated Riemannian manifold with some transversal curvature conditions, there are no nontrivial basic harmonic forms (M. Min-Oo et al., J. Reine Angew. Math. 415 (1991). In this paper, we extend the above facts to a complete foliated Riemannian manifold.

A foliation on a Riemannian manifold is hyperpolar if it admits a flat section, that is, a connected closed flat submanifold that intersects each leaf of the foliation orthogonally. In this article we classify the hyperpolar homogeneous foliations on every Riemannian symmetric space of noncompact type.

Study on the topology of leaves in singular Riemannian foliations.