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For a riemannian foliation \({\mathcal{F}}\) on a closed manifold M, it is known that \({\mathcal{F}}\) is taut (i.e. the leaves are minimal submanifolds) if and only if the (tautness) class defined by the mean curvature form \(\kappa_\mu\) (relatively to a suitable riemannian metric μ) is zero (cf. Álvarez in Ann Global Anal Geom 10:179–194, 1992). In the transversally orientable case, tautness is equivalent to the non-vanishing of the top basic cohomology group \(H^{n}\,(M\,/\,{\mathcal{F}})\) , where \(n = {\rm codim}\,{\mathcal{F}}\) (cf. Masa in Comment Math Helv 67:17–27, 1992). By the Poincaré Duality (cf. Kamber et and Tondeur in Astérisque 18:458–471, 1984) this last condition is equivalent to the non-vanishing of the basic twisted cohomology group \(H^{0}_{\kappa_\mu}(M\,/\,{\mathcal{F}})\) , when M is oriented. When M is not compact, the tautness class is not even defined in general. In this work, we recover the previous study and results for a particular case of riemannian foliations on non compact manifolds: the regular part of a singular riemannian foliation on a compact manifold (CERF).
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J. I. Royo Prieto was partially supported by EHU06/05, by a PostGrant from the Basque Government and by the MCyT of the Spanish Government. R. Wolak was partially supported by the KBN grant 2PO3A 021 25.
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Royo Prieto, J.I., Saralegi-Aranguren, M. & Wolak, R. Tautness for riemannian foliations on non-compact manifolds. manuscripta math. 126, 177–200 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00229-008-0172-0
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