The Holonomy Groupoids of Singularly Foliated Bundles

We define a notion of connection in a fibre bundle that is compatible with a singular foliation of the base. Fibre bundles equipped with such connections are in plentiful supply, arising naturally for any Lie groupoid-equivariant bundle, and simultaneously generalising regularly foliated bundles in the sense of Kamber-Tondeur and singular foliations. We define hierarchies of diffeological holonomy groupoids associated to such bundles, which arise from the parallel transport of jet/germinal conservation laws. We show that the groupoids associated in this manner to trivial singularly foliated bundles are quotients of Androulidakis-Skandalis holonomy groupoids, which coincide with Androulidakis-Skandalis holonomy groupoids in the regular case. Finally we prove functoriality of all our constructions under appropriate morphisms.

Deformation spaces and normal forms around transversals

Given a manifold $M$ with a submanifold $N$, the deformation space ${\mathcal{D}}(M,N)$ is a manifold with a submersion to $\mathbb{R}$ whose zero fiber is the normal bundle $\unicode[STIX]{x1D708}(M,N)$, and all other fibers are equal to $M$. This article uses deformation spaces to study the local behavior of various geometric structures associated with singular foliations, with $N$ a submanifold transverse to the foliation. New examples include $L_{\infty }$-algebroids, Courant algebroids, and Lie bialgebroids. In each case, we obtain a normal form theorem around $N$, in terms of a model structure over $\unicode[STIX]{x1D708}(M,N)$.

Geometry of Orbits of Vector Fields and Singular Foliations

The subject of this paper is the geometry of orbits of a family of smooth vector fields defined on a smooth manifold and singular foliations generated by the orbits. As is well known, the geometry of orbits of vector fields is one of the main subjects of investigation in geometry and control theory. Here we propose some author’s results on this problem. Throughout this paper, the smoothness means C∞-smoothness.