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Riemannian foliations on contractible manifolds

Differential Geometry 2018-03-16 v1

Abstract

We prove that Riemannian foliations on complete contractible manifolds have a closed leaf, and that all leaves are closed if one closed leaf has a finitely generated fundamental group. Under additional topological or geometric assumptions we prove that the foliation is also simple.

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@article{arxiv.1309.1989,
  title  = {Riemannian foliations on contractible manifolds},
  author = {Luis Florit and Oliver Goertsches and Alexander Lytchak and Dirk Toeben},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1309.1989},
  year   = {2018}
}

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14 pages