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A universal Riemannian foliated space

Geometric Topology 2016-12-14 v8 Differential Geometry Dynamical Systems

Abstract

It is proved that the isometry classes of pointed connected complete Riemannian nn-manifolds form a Polish space, M(n)\mathcal{M}_*^\infty(n), with the topology described by the CC^\infty convergence of manifolds. This space has a canonical partition into sets defined by varying the distinguished point into each manifold. The locally non-periodic manifolds define an open dense subspace M,lnp(n)M(n)\mathcal{M}_{*,\text{lnp}}^\infty(n)\subset\mathcal{M}_*^\infty(n), which becomes a CC^\infty foliated space with the restriction of the canonical partition. Its leaves without holonomy form the subspace M,np(n)M,lnp(n)\mathcal{M}_{*,\text{np}}^\infty(n)\subset\mathcal{M}_{*,\text{lnp}}^\infty(n) defined by the non-periodic manifolds. Moreover the leaves have a natural Riemannian structure so that M,lnp(n)\mathcal{M}_{*,\text{lnp}}^\infty(n) becomes a Riemannian foliated space, which is universal among all sequential Riemannian foliated spaces satisfying certain property called covering-continuity. M,lnp(n)\mathcal{M}_{*,\text{lnp}}^\infty(n) is used to characterize the realization of complete connected Riemannian manifolds as dense leaves of covering-continuous compact sequential Riemannian foliated spaces.

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@article{arxiv.1408.4779,
  title  = {A universal Riemannian foliated space},
  author = {Jesús A. Álvarez López and Ramón Barral Lijó and Alberto Candel},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1408.4779},
  year   = {2016}
}

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32 pages. Published in Topology Appl., 198 (2016), 47-85

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