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A series of integral formulas for a foliated sub-Riemannian manifold

Differential Geometry 2021-04-13 v3

Abstract

In this article, we prove a series of integral formulae for a codimension-one foliated sub-Riemannian manifold, i.e., a Riemannian manifold (M,g)(M,g) equipped with a distribution D=TFspan(N){\mathcal D}=T{\mathcal F}\oplus\,{\rm span}(N), where F{\mathcal F} is a foliation of MM and NN a unit vector field gg-orthogonal to F{\mathcal F}. Our integral formulas involve rrth mean curvatures of F{\mathcal F}, Newton transformations of the shape operator of F{\mathcal F} with respect to NN and the curvature tensor of induced connection on D{\mathcal D} and generalize some known integral formulas (due to Brito-Langevin-Rosenberg, Andrzejewski-Walczak and the author) for codimension-one foliations. We apply our formulas to sub-Riemannian manifolds with restrictions on the curvature and extrinsic geometry of a foliation.

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@article{arxiv.2103.02473,
  title  = {A series of integral formulas for a foliated sub-Riemannian manifold},
  author = {Vladimir Rovenski},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2103.02473},
  year   = {2021}
}

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10 pages