The structure of submetries

Kapovitch, Vitali¹ ; Lytchak, Alexander²

¹ Department of Mathematics, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
² Mathematisches Institut, Universität Köln, Köln, Germany

Geometry & topology, Tome 26 (2022) no. 6, pp. 2649-2711.

Résumé

We investigate the geometric and topological structure of equidistant decompositions of Riemannian manifolds.

Détail

Keywords: Alexandrov space, submetry, singular Riemannian foliation, equidistant decomposition

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