Proceedings of the Euroworkshop on Foliations

by Walczak, Pawel; Conlon, Lawrence; Langevin, Remi; Tsuboi, Takashi

• ISBN13: 9789810247966
• ISBN10: 9810247966
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-04-01
• Publisher: WORLD SCIENTIFIC PUB CO INC

Summary

Contains surveys and research articles regarding different aspects of the theory of foliation.

Table of Contents

SURVEY ARTICLES
Some results on secondary characteristic classes of transversely holomorphic foliations	3	(14)
T. Asuke
LS-categories for foliated manifolds	17	(12)
H. Colman
Dynamics and the Godbillon-Vey class: a history and survey	29	(32)
S. Hurder
Similarity and conformal geometry of foliations	61	(14)
R. Langevin
Foliations and contact structures on 3-manifolds	75	(52)
Y. Mitsumatsu
Operator algebras and the index theorem on foliated manifolds	127	(32)
H. Moriyoshi
RESEARCH PAPERS
Distributional Betti numbers of transitive foliations of codimension one	159	(26)
J. Alvarez Lopez
Y. Kordyukov
Circle at infinity influences on the smoothness of surface flows	185	(12)
S. Aranson
E. Zhuzhoma
Entropies of hyperbolic groups and some foliated spaces	197	(16)
A. Bis
P. Walezak
Tautly foliated 3-manifolds with no R-covered foliations	213	(12)
M. Brittenham
Endests of exceptional leaves: a theorem of G. Duminy	225	(38)
J. Cantwell
L. Conlon
Some remarks on partially holomorphic foliations	263	(12)
M. Frydrych
J. Kalina
Foliations and compactly generated pseudogroups	275	(22)
A. Haefliger
Traces and invariants for non-compact manifolds	297	(18)
J. Heitsch
Hilbert modules of foliated manifolds with boundary	315	(18)
M. Hilsum
Non-Euclidean affine laminations	333	(18)
V. Kaimanovich
Transverse Lusternik-Schnirelmann category and non-proper leaves	351	(4)
R. Langevin
P. Walczak
Structurally stable diffeomorphisms have no codimension one Plykin attractors on 3-manifolds	355	(16)
V. Medvedev
E. Zhuzhoma
On exact Poisson manifolds of dimension 3	371	(16)
T. Mizutani
Foliation cones corresponding to some pretzel links	387	(16)
Y. Nakae
Regular projectively Anosov flows without compact leaves	403	(18)
T. Noda
T. Tsuboi
On the perfectness of groups of diffeomorphisms of the interval tangent to the identity at the endpoints	421	(20)
T. Tsuboi
Basic distribution for singular Riemannian foliations	441	(8)
R. Wolak
List of participants	449	(2)
Program	451