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The extension of G-foliations to Tangent bundles of higher order

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 January 2016

Luis A. Cordero*
Affiliation:
Departamento de Geometria y Topologia, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela
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In this paper we describe a canonical procedure for constructing the extension of a G-foliation on a differentiable manifold X to its tangent bundles of higher order and by applying the Bott-Haefliger’s construction of characteristic classes of G-foliations ([2], [3]) we obtain an infinite sequence of characteristic classes for those foliations (Theorem 4.8).

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Research Article
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Copyright © Editorial Board of Nagoya Mathematical Journal 1975

References

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