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Transversal infinitesimal automorphisms of harmonic foliations on complete manifolds

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In this paper we study infinitesimal automorphisms of finiteL 2-norm for harmonic Riemannian and Kähler foliations admitting a complete bundle-like metric. The results generalize facts established recently in the compact case.

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Communicated by E. Ruh

1980 Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary 57 R 30, Secondary 58 E 20.

Work supported in part by a grant from the National Science Foundation.

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Nishikawa, S., Tondeur, P. Transversal infinitesimal automorphisms of harmonic foliations on complete manifolds. Ann Glob Anal Geom 7, 47–57 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00137401

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