On foliated circle bundles over closed orientable 3-manifolds
Author(s) -
Shigeaki Miyoshi
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
commentarii mathematici helvetici
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.603
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1420-8946
pISSN - 0010-2571
DOI - 10.1007/s000140050024
Subject(s) - fibered knot , foliation (geology) , mathematics , codimension , pure mathematics , manifold (fluid mechanics) , transverse plane , bundle , base (topology) , mathematical analysis , anatomy , geology , mechanical engineering , medicine , materials science , geochemistry , engineering , metamorphic rock , composite material
. We show that there exists a family of smooth orientable circle bundles over closed orientable 3-manifolds each of which has a codimension-one foliation transverse to the fibres of class C 0 but has none of class C 3 . There arises a necessary condition induced from the Milnor-Wood inequality for the existence of a foliation transverse to the fibres of an orientable circle bundle over a closed orientable 3-manifold. We show that with some exceptions this necessary condition is also sufficient for the existence of a smooth transverse foliation if the base space is a closed Seifert fibred manifold.
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