The Quantitative Theory of Foliations
Share this pageH. Blaine Lawson, Jr.
A co-publication of the AMS and CBMS
The purpose of these notes is to introduce the reader to the question
of how many geometrically distinct foliations, if any, can be constructed on a
given manifold.
The notes are based on lectures given in a Regional Conference at Washington
University in January 1975.
Reviews & Endorsements
A remarkable and relatively deep introduction and survey of many aspects of the very active area of the quantitative theory of foliations.
-- Connor Lazarov, Mathematical Reviews
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
The Quantitative Theory of Foliations
- Cover Cover11 free
- Title i2 free
- Copyright ii3 free
- Contents iii4 free
- Foreword v6 free
- Chapter I: Basic definitions and some examples 18 free
- Chapter II: The concept of holonomy 1017
- Chapter III: Topological obstructions to integrability and characteristic classes 2734
- Chapter IV: Classification theory 3441
- Chapter V: H*(BΓ[sup(r)][sub(q)]) and Gelfand-Fuks cohomology 5259
- References 6269
- Back Cover Back Cover173