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Study of affine and projective structures on foliated complex manifolds.

The paper studies affine manifolds with linear foliations and their topological properties.

New theorem extends Hadamard's to transversely affine geometry.

We study holomorphic foliations with an affine homogeneous transverse structure. We give a friendly characterization of the case of transversely affine foliations in terms of matrix valued pairs of differential forms. This leads naturally to the study of the case of foliations with singularities. A first extension theo…

Study affinely transverse foliations in sphere bundles, finding bounds and vanishing conditions.

Study rigid Lie affine foliations on compact manifolds.

Defines foliation criterion for dense isoperiodic leaves in rank 1 affine orbifolds.

Study on completeness of foliations and null Killing fields in Lorentzian manifolds.

This paper is devoted to discussing affine Hirsch foliations on $3$-manifolds. First, we prove that up to isotopic leaf-conjugacy, every closed orientable $3$-manifold $M$ admits $0$, $1$ or $2$ affine Hirsch foliations. Furthermore, every case is possible. Then, we analyze the $3$-manifolds admitting two affine Hirsch…

The paper shows measures equidistribute on affine submanifolds with a rate.

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

Identifies holonomy of affine surfaces via meromorphic connections.

Study shows dynamics of rank 1 orbifolds in flat surfaces.

Study jets of flat partial connections in foliations.

Let ${\cal F}$ be a complex affine Reeb foliation of dimension $1$ on the Hopf manifold ${\Bbb S}^{n+1}\times {\Bbb S}^1$. We prove that its foliated Dolbeault cohomology in degree $1$ is isomorphic to ${\Bbb C}$ by giving an explicit generator.

The space of broken hyperbolic structures generalizes the Teichmüller space of a punctured surface, and the space of projectivized broken measured foliations (equivalently, the space of projectivized affine foliations) generalizes the space of projectivized measured foliations. Just as projectivized measured foliations…

Study of foliations' geometric and topological structures.

Classifies actions on complex space forms with Lagrangian orbits.

The study shows how to foliate convex hypersurfaces in affine space with constant curvature.

Affine connections linked to Riccati distributions on compact surfaces.

This thesis is concerned with equidistant foliations of Euclidean space, i.e. partitions into complete, connected, properly embedded smooth submanifolds. The space of leaves is an Alexandrov space of nonnegative curvature and the canonical projection is a submetry. Generalizing a result of Gromoll and Walschap we show …

In the present paper we study geometric structures associated with webs of hypersurfaces. We prove that with any geodesic (n+2)-web on an n-dimensional manifold there is naturally associated a unique projective structure and, provided that one of web foliations is pointed, there is also associated a unique affine struc…

Study reveals flatness of Hessian metrics with non-negative Ricci curvature on foliation leaves.

Study of affine transformations on topological manifolds, focusing on local freeness and solvability.

We determine explicitly the foliated cohomology $H_{\cal F}^\ast (M)$ of the affine Reeb flow ${\cal F}$ on the Hopf manifold ${\Bbb S}^n\times {\Bbb S}^1$. The vector space $H_{\cal F}^1(M)$ contains exactly the obstructions to solve the cohomological equation $X\cdot f=g$ where $f$ and $g$ are $C^\infty$-functions a…

We introduce a class of objects which we call 'affine surfaces'. These provide families of foliations on surfaces whose dynamics we are interested in. We present and analyze a couple of examples, and we define concepts related to these in order to motivate several questions and open problems. In particular we generalis…

We study affine Jacobi structures on an affine bundle $π:A\to M$, i.e. Jacobi brackets that close on affine functions. We prove that there is a one-to-one correspondence between affine Jacobi structures on $A$ and Lie algebroid structures on the vector bundle $A^+=\bigcup_{p\in M}Aff(A_p,\R)$ of affine functionals. Som…

In this paper we exhibit a family of flat left invariant affine structures on the double Lie group of the oscillator Lie group of dimension 4, associated to each solution of classical Yang-Baxter equation given by Boucetta and Medina. On the other hand, using Koszul's method, we prove the existence of an immersion of L…

Let (M,w,L) be a symplectic manifold endowed with a lagrangian foliation L. Liberman and Weinstein have shown that the leaves of L are endowed with an affine structure. In this paper we provide links between the theories of affine manifolds and symplectic geometry. Using the work of Donaldson who have shown the existen…

Generalizing the notion of domains of dependence in the Minkowski space, we define and study regular domains in the affine space with respect to a proper convex cone. In dimension three, we show that every proper regular domain is uniquely foliated by a particular kind of surfaces with constant affine Gaussian curvatur…

A Sim(n-1,1) affine manifold is an affine manifold whose linear holonomy is contained in the similarity lorentzian group but not in the lorentzian group. The class of similarity lorentzian affine manifolds is a small part in the nice class of conformally lorentzian flat manifolds. In this paper we show that a compact S…

Paper studies symmetries in singular foliations using Lie $\infty$-morphisms.

Affine manifolds linked to integrable equations and geometric structures.

We obtain integral formulas for a metric-affine space equipped with two complementary orthogonal distributions. The integrand depends on the Ricci and mixed scalar curvatures and invariants of the second fundamental forms and integrability tensors of the distributions. The formulas under some conditions yield splitting…

We study the coarse geometry of the moduli space of dilation tori with two singularities and the dynamical properties of the action of the Teichmuller flow on this moduli space. This leads to a proof that the vertical foliation of a dilation torus is almost always Morse-Smale. As a corollary, we get that the generic pi…

Following Losik's approach to Gelfand's formal geometry, certain characteristic classes for codimension-one foliations coming from the Gelfand-Fuchs cohomology are considered. Sufficient conditions for non-triviality in terms of dynamical properties of generators of the holonomy groups are found. The non-triviality for…

Let $(M,ω)$ be a symplectic manifold endowed with a agrangian foliation ${\cal L}$, it has been shown by Weinstein [16] hat the symplectic structure of $M$ defines on each leaf of ${\cal L}$, connection which curvature and torsion forms vanish identically. uppose that $L_0$ is a compact leaf which Weinstein connection …

Affine deformations of convex cones yield special spacetime structures.

We prove that any planar 4-web defines a unique projective structure in the plane in such a way that the leaves of the foliations are geodesics of this projective structure. We also find conditions for the projective structure mentioned above to contain an affine symmetric connection, and conditions for a planar 4-web …

Introduces formal frames for manifolds and their properties.

This is the first part of a series on non-compact groups acting isometrically on compact Lorentz manifolds. This subject was recently investigated by many authors. In the present part we investigate the dynamics of affine, and especially Lorentz transformations. In particular we show how this is related to geodesic fol…

Affine deformations of convex cones on projective surfaces.

A projective structure on a compact Riemann surface X of genus g is given by an atlas with transition functions in PGL(2,C). Equivalently, a projective structure is given by a projective sl(2,C)-bundle over X equipped with a section s and a foliation F which is both transversal to the fibers and the section s. From thi…

We consider topological conditions under which a locally invertible map admits a global inverse. Our main theorem states that a local diffeomorphism $f: M \to\mathbb{R}^n$ is bijective if and only if $H_{n-1}(M)=0$ and the pre-image of every affine hyperplane is non-empty and acyclic. The proof is based on some geometr…

This is an account of some aspects of the geometry of Kähler affine metrics based on considering them as smooth metric measure spaces and applying the comparison geometry of Bakry-Emery Ricci tensors. Such techniques yield a version for Kähler affine metrics of Yau's Schwarz lemma for volume forms. By a theorem of Chen…

Study on deformation of affine structures on Lie groups using cohomology.

We use the notation EX(S>M), EXF(S>M) and DL(S>M), where M is a smooth manifold and S is a geometric structure. EX(S>M) is the question whether S exists in M. EXF(S>M) is the question whether M admits S-foliations. DL(S>M) is the search of an invariant measuring how M is far from admitting S. For many major geometric s…

In category theory, monads, which are monoid objects on endofunctors, play a central role closely related to adjunctions. Monads have been studied mostly in algebraic situations. In this dissertation, we study this concept in some categories of smooth manifolds. Namely, the tangent functor in the category of smooth man…