Jesús A. Álvarez López – författare

This book presents a new Lefschetz trace formula for a foliated flow on a compact foliated manifold with a foliation of codimension one. The leaves preserved by the flow and its closed orbits are assumed to be transversely simple. The formula equates two distributions on the real line: one is a renormalized trace of the flow’s action on two reduced leafwise cohomologies, defined via conormal and dual-conormal currents; the other consists of contributions from the preserved leaves, closed orbits, and a b-trace version of Connes’ Euler characteristic, defined using a transverse invariant measure on the complement of the preserved leaves. The usual Euler characteristic is undefined here due to non-compactness.  The proofs and definitions combine tools from analysis and foliation theory, like small b-calculus, Witten’s deformation of differential complexes, heat invariants, and zeta functions of operators, alongside a description of foliations with this type of flow. The exposition is largely self-contained, with prerequisites and references given for further study. The trace formula solves a conjecture of C. Deninger, motivated by his program which links arithmetic zeta functions to foliated geometry. While further generalization is needed for arithmetic applications, the original and technically deep ideas presented here are valuable in themselves and offer a foundation for future work.  The book will be of interest to researchers and graduate students in foliation theory, global analysis on manifolds, and arithmetic geometry.

This book presents a new Lefschetz trace formula for a foliated flow on a compact foliated manifold with a foliation of codimension one. The leaves preserved by the flow and its closed orbits are assumed to be transversely simple. The formula equates two distributions on the real line: one is a renormalized trace of the flow’s action on two reduced leafwise cohomologies, defined via conormal and dual-conormal currents; the other consists of contributions from the preserved leaves, closed orbits, and a b-trace version of Connes’ Euler characteristic, defined using a transverse invariant measure on the complement of the preserved leaves. The usual Euler characteristic is undefined here due to non-compactness.  The proofs and definitions combine tools from analysis and foliation theory, like small b-calculus, Witten’s deformation of differential complexes, heat invariants, and zeta functions of operators, alongside a description of foliations with this type of flow. The exposition is largely self-contained, with prerequisites and references given for further study. The trace formula solves a conjecture of C. Deninger, motivated by his program which links arithmetic zeta functions to foliated geometry. While further generalization is needed for arithmetic applications, the original and technically deep ideas presented here are valuable in themselves and offer a foundation for future work.  The book will be of interest to researchers and graduate students in foliation theory, global analysis on manifolds, and arithmetic geometry.

This book provides a detailed introduction to the coarse quasi-isometry of leaves of a foliated space and describes the cases where the generic leaves have the same quasi-isometric invariants. Every leaf of a compact foliated space has an induced coarse quasi-isometry type, represented by the coarse metric defined by the length of plaque chains given by any finite foliated atlas.  When there are dense leaves either all dense leaves without holonomy are uniformly coarsely quasi-isometric to each other, or else every leaf is coarsely quasi-isometric to just meagerly many other leaves.  Moreover, if all leaves are dense, the first alternative is characterized by a condition on the leaves called coarse quasi-symmetry.  Similar results are proved for more specific coarse invariants, like growth type, asymptotic dimension, and amenability. The Higson corona of the leaves is also studied. All the results are richly illustrated with examples. The book is primarily aimed at researchers on foliated spaces. More generally, specialists in geometric analysis, topological dynamics, or metric geometry may also benefit from it.

This volume contains research and expository papers on recent advances in foliations and Riemannian geometry. Some of the topics covered in this volume include: topology, geometry, dynamics and analysis of foliations, curvature, submanifold theory, Lie groups and harmonic maps.Among the contributions, readers may find an extensive survey on characteristic classes of Riemannian foliations offering also new results, an article showing the uniform simplicity of certain diffeomorphism groups, an exposition of convergences of contact structures to foliations from the point of view of Thurston's and Thurston-Bennequin's inequalities, a discussion about Fatou-Julia decompositions for foliations and a description of singular Riemannian foliations on spaces without conjugate points.Papers on submanifold theory focus on the existence of graphs with prescribed mean curvature and mean curvature flow for spacelike graphs, isometric and conformal deformations and detailed surveys on totally geodesic submanifolds in symmetric spaces, cohomogeneity one actions on hyperbolic spaces and rigidity of geodesic spheres in space forms. Geometric realizability of curvature tensors and curvature operators are also treated in this volume with special attention to the affine and the pseudo-Riemannian settings. Also, some contributions on biharmonic maps and submanifolds enrich the scope of this volume in providing an overview of different topics of current interest in differential geometry.

This volume is a compilation of new results and surveys on the current state of some aspects of the foliation theory presented during the conference “FOLIATIONS 2012”. It contains recent materials on foliation theory which is related to differential geometry, the theory of dynamical systems and differential topology. Both the original research and survey articles found in here should inspire students and researchers interested in foliation theory and the related fields to plan his/her further research.