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Foliated g-structures and riemannian foliations

  • Robert A. Wolak
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Abstract

Abstract Using the properties of the commuting sheaf of aG-foliation of finite type we prove that some of theseG-foliations must be Riemannian.

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Finite Type Basic Manifold Riemannian Foliation Compact Type Local Diffeomorphisms 
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Robert A. Wolak
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  1. 1.Departmento de Xeometria e Topoloxia Facultade de MatematicasUniversidade de Santiago de CompostelaSantiago de CompostelaSpain

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