On the Structure of Equidistant Foliations of Euclidean Space
Differential Geometry
2007-12-04 v1
Abstract
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 that an equidistant foliation always has an affine leaf and we prove homogeneneity of the foliation under certain additional assumptions. Moreover, we give several reducibility results and construct new (noncompact) inhomogeneous examples of equidistant foliations.
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Cite
@article{arxiv.0712.0245,
title = {On the Structure of Equidistant Foliations of Euclidean Space},
author = {Christian Boltner},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0712.0245},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
PhD thesis at University of Augsburg, Germany (Advisor: Ernst Heintze); slightly revised version; 56 pages, 8 figures