Differential Geometry
Minimal singular Riemannian foliations

Presented by: Étienne Ghys

Miquel, Vicente1; Wolak, Robert A.2
1 Departamento de Geometría y Topología, Universidad de Valencia, 46100 Burjassot, Spain
2 Institute of Mathematics, Jagiellonian University, 30-059 Krakow, Poland
Comptes Rendus. Mathématique, Volume 342 (2006) no. 1, pp. 33-36.

We prove that a singular foliation on a compact manifold admitting an adapted Riemannian metric for which all leaves are minimal must be regular.

Nous prouvons que tout feuilletage singulier sur une variété compacte qu'a une métrique riemannienne feuilletée avec feuilles minimales est régulier.

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DOI: 10.1016/j.crma.2005.10.031
Miquel, Vicente 1; Wolak, Robert A. 2

1 Departamento de Geometría y Topología, Universidad de Valencia, 46100 Burjassot, Spain
2 Institute of Mathematics, Jagiellonian University, 30-059 Krakow, Poland 
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Miquel, Vicente; Wolak, Robert A. Minimal singular Riemannian foliations. Comptes Rendus. Mathématique, Volume 342 (2006) no. 1, pp. 33-36. doi : 10.1016/j.crma.2005.10.031. https://www.numdam.org/articles/10.1016/j.crma.2005.10.031/

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⁎ Partly supported by DGI (Spain) and FEDER Project MTM 2004-06015-C02-01, a sabbatical year from the University of Valencia and by Polish KBN grant 2PO3A021 25.