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Itogi Nauki i Tekhniki. Sovrem. Mat. Pril. Temat. Obz., 2021 Volume 203, Pages 17–38 (Mi into927)

Complete Lorentzian foliations of codimension 2 on closed manifolds

N. I. Zhukova, N. G. Chebochko

National Research University "Higher School of Economics", Nizhny Novgorod Branch

Abstract: In this work, we describe the structure of a complete Lorentzian foliation $(M,F)$ of codimension $2$ on an $n$-dimensional closed manifold. We prove that either $(M,F)$ is a Riemannian foliation or it has constant transverse curvature. We also describe the structure of such foliations obtain a criterion that reduces the problem of chaos in $(M,F)$ to the problem of chaos of the smooth action of the group $O(1,1)$ on the associated, locally symmetric $3$-manifold or to the problem of chaos of its global holonomy group, which is a finitely generated subgroup of the isometry group of the plane with a complete metric of constant curvature.

Keywords: foliation, Lorentzian foliation, global holonomy group, chaos, Ehresmann connection.

UDC: 514.76

MSC: 53C12, 57R30, 37D45

DOI: 10.36535/0233-6723-2021-203-17-38



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