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Riemannian foliations of spheres

Differential Geometry 2016-07-20 v1

Abstract

We show that a Riemannian foliation on a topological nn-sphere has leaf dimension 1 or 3 unless n=15 and the Riemannian foliation is given by the fibers of a Riemannian submersion to an 8-dimensional sphere. This allows us to classify Riemannian foliations on round spheres up to metric congruence.

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@article{arxiv.1309.7884,
  title  = {Riemannian foliations of spheres},
  author = {Alexander Lytchak and Burkhard Wilking},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1309.7884},
  year   = {2016}
}

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17 pages