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The diffeomorphism group of a Lie foliation

Differential Geometry 2008-12-16 v1

Abstract

We explicitly compute the diffeomorphism group of several types of linear foliations (with dense leaves) on the torus TnT^n, n2n\geq 2, namely codimension one foliations, flows, and the so-called non-quadratic foliations. We show in particular that non-quadratic foliations are rigid, in the sense that they do not admit transverse diffeomorphisms other than ±\id\pm \id and translations. The computation is an application of a general formula that we prove for the diffeomorphism group of any Lie foliation with dense leaves on a compact manifold. Our results generalize those of P. Donato and P. Iglesias for T2T^2, P. Iglesias and G. Lachaud for codimension one foliations on TnT^n, n2n\geq 2, and B. Herrera for transcendent foliations. The theoretical setting of the paper is that of J. M. Souriau's diffeological spaces.

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@article{arxiv.0812.2550,
  title  = {The diffeomorphism group of a Lie foliation},
  author = {G. Hector and E. Macías-Virgós and A. Sotelo-Armesto},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0812.2550},
  year   = {2008}
}

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16 pages

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