Proceedings of the Euroworkshop on Foliations Geometry and Dynamics : 29 May-9 June 2000, Warsaw, Poland / / editors, Pawe Walczak ... [et al.]

• Pubblicazione: Singapore ; ; River Edge, N.J., : World Scientific, c2002
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (462 p.)
• Disciplina: 514.72
• Soggetto topico: Foliations (Mathematics); Differential topology
• Altri autori: WalczakPawe Grzegorz
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: CONTENTS ; SURVEY ARTICLES ; Some results on secondary characteristic classes of transversely holomorphic foliations ; 1 Introduction ; 2 Examples ; 3 Definitions ; 4 Rigidity and residuality ; 5 Another relation between the Bott class and the Godbillon-Vey class ; References ; LS-categories for foliated manifolds 1 Introduction ; 2 LS-category ; 3 Fibrewise category ; 4 Equivariant category ; 5 Foliated categories ; References ; Dynamics and the Godbillon-Vey class: a history and survey ; 1 A simple definition ; 2 Structure theory ; 3 Duminy's Theorem ; 4 Ergodic theory 5 Geometric entropy ; 6 Exceptional minimal sets ; 7 Extensions of Godbillon-Vey ; 8 Tricks and treats ; 9 Open questions ; References ; Similarity and conformal geometry of foliations ; 1 Euclidean integral geometry for foliations ; 2 Dimension-one foliations of homothety surfaces 3 The set of spheres ; 4 Codimension-one foliation of R³, S³ or H³ ; 5 Bilocal statements ; References ; Foliations and contact structures on 3-manifolds ; 0 Introduction to contact geometry ; 1 3D contact topology due to Bennequin ; 2 Fillable contact structures and tightness 3 Contact structures and foliations: focused on the theory of confoliations ; 4 Anosov flows and bi-contact structures ; 5 Problems ; References ; Operator algebras and the index theorem on foliated manifolds ; Introduction ; 1 Topology of the leaf space M/F
• Sommario/riassunto: This volume contains surveys and research articles regarding different aspects of the theory of foliation. The main aspects concern the topology of foliations of low-dimensional manifolds, the geometry of foliated Riemannian manifolds and the dynamical properties of foliations. Among the surveys are lecture notes devoted to the analysis of some operator algebras on foliated manifolds and the theory of confoliations (objects defined recently by W Thurston and Y Eliashberg, situated between foliations and contact structures). Among the research articles one can find a detailed proof of an unpub
• Altri titoli varianti: Foliations geometry and dynamics
• Titolo autorizzato: Proceedings of the Euroworkshop on Foliations Geometry and Dynamics
• ISBN: 981-277-824-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910818017203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II