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