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  2. Foliation - Wikipedia

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    2-dimensional section of Reeb foliation 3-dimensional model of Reeb foliation. In mathematics (differential geometry), a foliation is an equivalence relation on an n-manifold, the equivalence classes being connected, injectively immersed submanifolds, all of the same dimension p, modeled on the decomposition of the real coordinate space R n into the cosets x + R p of the standardly embedded ...

  3. Reeb foliation - Wikipedia

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    In mathematics, the Reeb foliation is a particular foliation of the 3-sphere, introduced by the French mathematician Georges Reeb (1920–1993). It is based on dividing the sphere into two solid tori , along a 2- torus : see Clifford torus .

  4. Novikov's compact leaf theorem - Wikipedia

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    The leaf is a torus T 2 bounding a solid torus with the Reeb foliation. The theorem was proved by Sergei Novikov in 1964. Earlier, Charles Ehresmann had conjectured that every smooth codimension-one foliation on S 3 had a compact leaf, which was known to be true for all known examples; in particular, the Reeb foliation has a compact leaf that ...

  5. Distribution (differential geometry) - Wikipedia

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    The distribution/foliation is regular if and only if the action is free. Given a Poisson manifold ( M , π ) {\displaystyle (M,\pi )} , the image of π ♯ = ι π : T ∗ M → T M {\displaystyle \pi ^{\sharp }=\iota _{\pi }:T^{*}M\to TM} is a singular distribution which is always integrable; the leaves of the associated singular foliation are ...

  6. Cleavage (geology) - Wikipedia

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    For example, when mixed sandstone and mudstone sequences are folded during very-low to low grade metamorphism, cleavage forms parallel to the fold axial plane, particularly in the clay-rich parts of the sequence. In folded alternations of sandstone and mudstone the cleavage has a fan-like arrangement, divergent in the mudstone layers and ...

  7. Foliation (geology) - Wikipedia

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    Foliation in geology refers to repetitive layering in metamorphic rocks. [1] Each layer can be as thin as a sheet of paper, or over a meter in thickness. [ 1 ] The word comes from the Latin folium , meaning "leaf", and refers to the sheet-like planar structure. [ 1 ]

  8. 3D fold evolution - Wikipedia

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    In geology, 3D fold evolution is the study of the full three dimensional structure of a fold as it changes in time. A fold is a common three-dimensional geological structure that is associated with strain deformation under stress. Fold evolution in three dimensions can be broadly divided into two stages, namely fold growth and fold linkage.

  9. Frobenius theorem (differential topology) - Wikipedia

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    A p-dimensional, class C r foliation of an n-dimensional manifold M is a decomposition of M into a union of disjoint connected submanifolds {L α} α∈A, called the leaves of the foliation, with the following property: Every point in M has a neighborhood U and a system of local, class C r coordinates x=(x 1, ⋅⋅⋅, x n) : U→R n such that ...