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Simplified proof of foliation closure theorem for linear foliations.

Proof shows cones minimize certain geometric functionals.

Simplified proof of a theorem about 3D shapes.

Proof of contact structure from taut foliation for certain knots.

New proof of Aubin-Yau theorem for complex non-Kähler manifolds.

Study simplifies classification of foliations with specific geometric structures.

We give a detailed, self-contained proof of Geoffrey Martin's normal form theorem for Lagrangian submanifolds of standard multisymplectic manifolds (that generalises Alan Weinstein's famous normal form theorem in symplectic geometry), providing also complete proofs for the necessary results in foliated differential top…

An alternate proof shows how foliation extensions work in 3D spaces.

We present an index theorem for certain hypoelliptic differential operators on foliated manifolds. Our proof is a development of Alain Connes tangent groupoid proof of the Atiyah-Singer index theorem. The paper is largely self-contained.

New proof shows left orderability of 3-manifold groups with specific foliations.

New proof classifies orbit closures in Hodge bundle.

A foliation is R-covered if the leaf space in the universal cover is homeomorphic to the real numbers. We show that, up to topological conjugacy, there are at most two pseudo-Anosov flows transverse to such a foliation. If there are two, then the foliation is weakly conjugate to the the stable foliation of an R-covered…

We prove an analogue of the Hitchin-Kobayashi correspondence for compact, oriented, taut Riemannian foliated manifolds with transverse Hermitian structure. In particular, our Hitchin-Kobayashi theorem holds on any compact Sasakian manifold. We define the notion of stability for foliated Hermitian vector bundles with tr…

We study the left-orderability of the fundamental groups of cyclic branched covers of links which admit co-oriented taut foliations. In particular we do this for cyclic branched covers of fibred knots in integer homology $3$-spheres and cyclic branched covers of closed braids. The latter allows us to complete the proof…

New proof of uniformization for hyperbolic foliations.

In this paper we prove the conjecture of Molino that for every singular Riemannian foliation $(M,\mathcal{F})$, the partition $\bar{\mathcal{F}}$ given by the closures of the leaves of $\mathcal{F}$ is again a singular Riemannian foliation.

We give a complete proof of the fact that a contact structure that is sufficiently close to a Reebless foliation is universally tight.

New proof associates partitions to isotopic pseudo-Anosov homeomorphisms.

We give a superconnection proof of an index theorem for a Dirac-type operator that is invariant with respect to the action of a foliation groupoid.

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…

The simplicial volume of oriented closed connected smooth manifolds that admit a non-trivial smooth $S^1$-action vanishes. In the present work we prove a version of this result for the integral foliated simplicial volume of aspherical manifolds: The integral foliated simplicial volume of aspherical oriented closed conn…

We give a superconnection proof of Connes' index theorem for proper cocompact actions of etale groupoids. This includes Connes' general foliation index theorem for foliations with Hausdorff holonomy groupoid.

We use adiabatic limits to study foliated manifolds. The Bott connection naturally shows up as the adiabatic limit of Levi-Civita connections. As an application, we then construct certain natural elliptic operators associated to the foliation and present a direct geometric proof of a vanshing theorem of Connes[Co], whi…

A singular foliation in the sense of Androulidakis and Skandalis is an involutive and locally finitely generated module of compactly supported vector fields on a manifold. An automorphism of a singular foliation is a diffeomorphism that preserves the module. In this note, we give an alternative proof of the (surprising…

New proof of Lie algebroid action equivalence and integrability.

The paper explores global index formulas for one-dimensional holomorphic foliations.

We establish a form of the h-principle for the existence of foliations quasi-complementary to a given one; the same methods also provide a proof of the classical Mather-Thurston theorem.

Linearizability of singular foliations is preserved under a specific equivalence relation.

We prove the nonexistence of a proper singular Riemannian foliation admitting section in compact manifolds of nonpositive curvature. Then we give a global description of proper singular Riemannian foliations admitting sections on Hadamard manifolds. In addition by using the theory of taut immersions we provide a short …

Investigates Künneth formula for foliated de Rham cohomology, overcoming non-Hausdorff issues.

New foliations constructed from contact pairs, revealing flexible taut foliations.

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

Formula calculates manifold Euler characteristic from curvature.

In this paper we prove existence and uniqueness of a CMC foliation in asymptotically cuspidal manifolds. Moreover, we study the isoperimetric problem in this case. Our proof does not require any curvature assumption and it holds for any dimension.

This note provides an alternative proof of a result of Labourie. We show that the two complements of the convex core of a three dimensional quasi-fuchsian hyperbolic manifold may be foliated by embedded hypersurfaces of constant Gaussian curvature.

Establishes necessary and sufficient conditions for smooth triviality of Lie subalgebras and Lie ideals, and proves Moser's trick for foliations.

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

We recreate an unpublished proof of William Thurston from the early 1970's that any smooth 2-plane field on a manifold of dimension at least 4 is homotopic to the tangent plane field of a foliation.

Simplified proof of Cerf's theorem on 3-sphere diffeomorphisms.

We describe a semi-local canonical form for Legendrian foliations on contact manifolds in the neighbourhood of a Legendrian submanifold. This result generalizes local results by Libermann and Pang on Legendrian foliations on contact manifolds, and is analogeous to a semi-local result by Weinstein in the symplectic case…

Solved Gromoll-Walschap's conjecture on negative curvature manifolds.

Regularisation method studies Lie algebroids via foliated structures.

Sharp spectral estimates for negatively curved foliations.

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…

The Whitehead link exterior lacks most Euler class taut foliations.

The survey is devoted to Toponogov's conjecture, that {\it if a complete simply connected Riemannian manifold with sectional curvature $\le 4$ and injectivity radius $\ge π/2$ has extremal diameter $π/2$, then it is isometric to CROSS}. In Section 1 the relations of problem with geodesic foliations of a round sphere ar…

We exhibit a pseudogroup of smooth local transformations of the real line which is compactly generated, but not realizable as the holonomy pseudogroup of a foliation of codimension 1 on a compact manifold. The proof relies on a description of all foliations with the same dynamic as the Reeb component.

Formula derived for zeta functions of 3D foliated systems.