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Godbillon-Vey invariants for families of foliations

Geometric Topology 2013-01-31 v1

Abstract

The classical Godbillon-Vey invariant is an odd degree cohomology class that is a cobordism invariant of a single foliation. Here we investigate cohomology classes of even degree that are cobordism invariants of (germs of) 1-parameter families of foliations.

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@article{arxiv.math/0111137,
  title  = {Godbillon-Vey invariants for families of foliations},
  author = {D. Kotschick},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0111137},
  year   = {2013}
}

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17 pages