MATHEMATICS
On the group of isometries of foliated manifold
A. S. Sharipov Department of Geometry, National University of Uzbekistan, ul. Universitetskaya, 4, Tashkent, 100174, Uzbekistan
Abstract:
The question of the group of isometries of a Riemannian manifold is the main problem of the classical Riemannian geometry. Let
$G$ denote the group of isometries of a Riemannian manifold
$M$ of dimension
$n$ with a Riemannian metric
$g$. It is known that the group
$G$ with the compact-open topology is a Lie group. This paper discusses the question of the existence of isometric maps of the foliated manifold
$(M,F)$. We denote the group of all isometries of the foliated Riemannian manifold
$(M,F)$ by
$G_F$. Studying the structure of the group
$G_F$ of the foliated manifold
$(M,F)$ is a new and interesting problem. First, this problem is considered in the paper of A. Y. Narmanov and the author, where it was shown that the group
$G_F$ with a compact-open topology is a topological group. We consider the question of the structure of the group
$G_F$, where
$M=R^n$ and
$F$ is foliation generated by the connected components of the level surfaces of the smooth function
$ f\colon R^n\to R$. It is proved that the group of isometries of foliated Euclidean space is a subgroup of the isometry group of Euclidean space, if the foliation is generated by the level surfaces of a smooth function, which is not a metric.
Keywords:
Riemannian manifold, foliation, isometric mapping, foliated manifold, the group of isometries, metric function.
UDC:
514.3
MSC: 53C12,
53C22 Received: 05.02.2014
DOI:
10.20537/vm140110