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Intuitively, a foliation corresponds to a decomposition of a manifold into a union of connected submanifolds of the same dimension called leaves. The collection of leaves looks locally like pages of a book.
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Rovenskii, V.Y. (1998). Foliations on Manifolds. In: Foliations on Riemannian Manifolds and Submanifolds. Birkhäuser Boston. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-4270-3_1
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