Differential Topology, Foliations and Gelfand-Fuks Cohomology: Proceedings of the Symposium held at the Pontifica Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, 5–24 January, 1976

André Haefliger (auth.), Paul A. Schweitzer (eds.)9780387078687, 0-387-07868-1

Table of contents :
Cohomology of lie algebras and foliations….Pages 1-12
Whitehead products and differential forms….Pages 13-24
On some formulas for the characteristic classes of group-actions….Pages 25-61
De rham theory for bΓ….Pages 62-74
Differential geometry and foliations: The godbillon-vey invariant and the bott-pasternack vanishing-theorems….Pages 75-94
Pontryagin polynomial residues of isolated foliation singularities….Pages 95-103
Structures feuilletees….Pages 104-113
Rigidity of the centralizers of diffeomorphisms and structural stability of suspended foliations….Pages 114-121
Integrable perturbations of fibrations and a theorem of seifert….Pages 122-127
Structural stability of foliations with singularities….Pages 128-137
Un theoreme de Thurston etabli au moyen de l’analyse non standard….Pages 138-138
Addendum: Une modification standard de la demonstration non standard de Reeb et schweitzer….Pages 139-140
Croissance des feuilletages presque sans holonomte….Pages 141-182
Sur la theorie des feuilletages associee au repere mobile : cas des feuilletages de lie….Pages 183-195
On the index of isolated closed tori….Pages 196-211
An application of the ρ-invariant….Pages 212-221
G-transversality to ℂP n ….Pages 222-239
Some problems in foliation theory and related areas….Pages 240-252