Integral Formulas for a Foliation with a Unit Normal Vector Field
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In this article, we prove integral formulas for a Riemannian manifold equipped with a foliation F and a unit vector field N orthogonal to F, and generalize known integral formulas (due to Brito-Langevin-Rosenberg and Andrzejewski-Walczak) for foliations of codimension one. Our integral formulas involve Newton transformations of the shape operator of F with respect to N and the curvature tensor of the induced connection on the distribution D=TF⊕span(N), and this decomposition of D can be regarded as a codimension-one foliation of a sub-Riemannian manifold. We apply our formulas to foliated (sub-)Riemannian manifolds with restrictions on the curvature and extrinsic geometry of the foliation.
2017 ◽
Vol 35
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pp. 79-93
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