Foliations: Dynamics, Geometry and Topology

• Main Authors: Asaoka, Masayuki (Author), El Kacimi Alaoui, Aziz (Author), Hurder, Steven (Author), Richardson, Ken (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Álvarez López, Jesús (Editor), Nicolau, Marcel (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Basel : Springer Basel : Imprint: Birkhäuser, 2014.
• Series: Advanced Courses in Mathematics - CRM Barcelona,
• Subjects: Mathematics.; Dynamics.; Ergodic theory.; Global analysis (Mathematics).; Manifolds (Mathematics).; Complex manifolds.; Manifolds and Cell Complexes (incl. Diff.Topology).; Dynamical Systems and Ergodic Theory.; Global Analysis and Analysis on Manifolds.

This book is an introduction to several active research topics in Foliation Theory and its connections with other areas. It contains expository lectures showing the diversity of ideas and methods arising and used in the study of foliations. The lectures by A. El Kacimi Alaoui offer an introduction t...

Table of Contents:

• Fundamentals of Foliation Theory
• Foliation Dynamics
• Deformation of Locally Free Actions and Leafwise Cohomology
• Transversal Dirac Operators on Distributions, Foliations, and G-Manifolds.