Homotopy classes of total foliations
Author(s) -
Masayuki Asaoka,
Emmanuel Dufraine,
Takeo Noda
Publication year - 2012
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 - 10.4171/cmh/254
Subject(s) - mathematics , corollary , homotopy , codimension , pure mathematics , class (philosophy) , manifold (fluid mechanics) , point (geometry) , euler characteristic , mathematical analysis , geometry , mechanical engineering , artificial intelligence , computer science , engineering
On every compact and orientable three-manifold we construct total foliations (three codimension-one foliations that are transverse at every point). This construction can be performed on any homotopy class of plane fields with vanishing Euler class. As a corollary we obtain similar results on bi-contact structures. Mathematics Subject Classification (2010). 57R30.
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