Classifying foliations

Abstract

Abstract. We give a survey of the approaches to classifying foliations, starting with the Haefliger classifying spaces and the various results and examples about the secondary classes of foliations. Various dynamical properties of foliations are introduced and discussed, including expansion rate, local entropy, and orbit growth rates. This leads to a decomposition of the foliated space into Borel or measurable components with these various dynamical types. The dynamical structure is compared with the classification via secondary classes.1991 Mathematics Subject Classification. Primary 22F05, 37C85, 57R20, 57R32, 58H05, 58H10; Secondary 37A35, 37A55, 37C35 .

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