Foliations and Geometric Structures Hardback
by Aurel Bejancu, Hani Reda Farran
Part of the Mathematics and Its Applications series
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The theory of foliations of manifolds was created in the forties of the last century by Ch.
Ehresmann and G. Reeb [ER44]. Since then, the subject has enjoyed a rapid development and thousands of papers investigating foliations have appeared.
A list of papers and preprints on foliations up to 1995 can be found in Tondeur [Ton97].
Due to the great interest of topologists and geometers in this rapidly ev- ving theory, many books on foliations have also been published one after the other.
We mention, for example, the books written by: I. Tamura [Tam76], G. Hector and U. Hirsch [HH83], B. Reinhart [Rei83], C. Camacho and A.L. Neto [CN85], H. Kitahara [Kit86], P. Molino [Mol88], Ph. Tondeur [Ton88], [Ton97], V. Rovenskii [Rov98], A. Candel and L. Conlon [CC03]. Also, the survey written by H.B. Lawson, Jr. [Law74] had a great impact on the de- lopment of the theory of foliations.
So it is natural to ask: why write yet another book on foliations?
The answerisverysimple.Ourareasofinterestandinvestigationaredi?erent.The main theme of this book is to investigate the interrelations between foliations of a manifold on one hand, and the many geometric structures that the ma- foldmayadmitontheotherhand. Amongthesestructureswemention:a?ne, Riemannian, semi-Riemannian, Finsler, symplectic, and contact structures.
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- Publication Date:22/11/2005
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- ISBN:9781402037191
