Haefliger Structure at Math Glossary

What is it? A relatively complicated structure on an n-manifold which consists of a k-plane field plus auxiliary information derived from the diffeomorphism group of (n-k)-dimensional Euclidean space. A foliation has a parallel Haefliger structure just as it has a pa

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