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Vestn. Udmurtsk. Univ. Mat. Mekh. Komp. Nauki, 2014 Issue 1, Pages 118–122 (Mi vuu421)

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



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