Vector field construction of Segre sets

A CR generic real analytic CR manifold M carries two families of Segre varieties and conjugate Segre varieties. We observe in this article that their complexifications give rise to two families of foliations of the complexification of M which coincide with the flow foliations induced by the complexified CR (1,0) and (0,1) vector fields tangent to M. As an application, we derive a new proof of the characterization of finite type in terms of Segre sets.Comment: Completely rewritten version, 42 pages Sujclass: Complex Variable

Commuting foliations

The aim of this paper is to extend the notion of commutativity of vector fields to the category of singular foliations, using Nambu structures, i.e. integrable multi-vector fields. We will classify the relationship between singular foliations and Nambu structures, and show some basic results about commuting Nambu structures.Comment: New version, with a completely new section which clarifies the relationship between singular foliations and Nambu structures. The size of the paper has doubled from 10 to 20 page

On the connectedness of the space of codimension one foliations on a closed 3-manifold

We study the topology of the space of smooth codimension one foliations on a closed 3-manifold. We regard this space as the space of integrable plane fields included in the space of all smooth plane fields. It has been known since the late 60's that every plane field can be deformed continuously to an integrable one, so the above inclusion induces a surjective map between connected components. We prove that this map is actually a bijection.Comment: 47 pages, 22 figure

Foliations of Tangent Bundle in a Finsler Manifold

In this paper, a frame is introduced on tangent bundle of a Finsler manifold in a manner that it makes some simplicity to study the properties of the natural foliations in tangent bundle. Moreover, we show that the indicatrix bundle of a Finsler manifold with lifted sasaki metric and natural almost complex structure on tangent bundle cannot be a sasakian manifold.Comment: 11 pages. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1106.482