Geometry of foliations/

Main Author: Tondeur, Philippe
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Basel Boston: Birkhauser - Verlag, 1997
Series:Monographs in Mathematics ; 90
Subjects:
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245 1 0 |a Geometry of foliations/  |c Philippe Tondeur 
260 |a Basel  |b Birkhauser - Verlag,  |c 1997  |a Boston: 
300 |a viii, 305 p. ;  |c 24 cm. 
490 0 |a Monographs in Mathematics ;  |v 90 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. 139-301) and indexes. 
505 0 |a Examples and definition of foliations. Foliations of codimension one. Holonomy, second fundamental form, mean curvature. Basic forms, spectral, sequence, characteristic form. Transversal Riemannian geometry. Flows. Hodge theory for the transversal Laplacian. Cohomology vanishing and tautness. Lie foliations. Structure of Riemannian foliations. Spectral geometry of Riemannian foliations. Foliations as noncommutative spaces. Infinite-dimensional Riemannian foliations. - Appendix A: Books and surveys on particular aspects of foliations. Appendix B: Proceedings of conferences and symposia devoted to foliations. Appendix C: Bibliography on foliations. Appendix D: Numbers of papers on foliations published during consecutive five year periods up to 1995. 
650 0 |a Geometry, Differential 
650 0 |a Foliations (Mathematics) 
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