Classes of submersions of Riemannian manifolds with compact fibers
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Abstract
In Riemannian geometry and its applications, the most popular is the class of Riemannian submersions (and foliations) [1–4] which are characterized by simplest mutual disposition of fibers. The purpose of the present article is to introduce other, more general, classes of submersions of Riemannian manifolds which, as well as the class of Riemannian submersions, are described by simple local properties of configuration tensors and to begin their study.
Given a submersion π:M→M of differentiable manifolds with compact connected fibers and any metric onM, we define a metric on the base with the help of theL2-norm of horizontal fields. In this caseT¯ M becomes a subbundle of some larger bundleM. The main class of totally geodesic submersions introduced in the article (Definition 1) corresponds to the metrics onM with simplest disposition ofT¯ M inM. In the article we obtain a criterion for such submersions (Corollary 1); existence is proved by means of the product with a metric varying along fibers (Example 2). To study totally geodesic submersions, we use ideas from the theory of Riemannian submersions and submanifolds with degenerate second form (Theorems 1 and 2 and Corollary 4).
Foliations modeled by totally geodesic submersions (see equality (13)) are of interest too, but we leave them beyond the scope of the article.
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