Differential Topology, Foliations and Gelfand-Fuks Cohomology: Proceedings of the Symposium held at the Pontifica Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, 5–24 January, 1976

Edited By Paul A. Schweitzer. Includes Index. Includes Bibliographical References. Cohomology of lie algebras and foliations....Pages 1-12 Whitehead products and differential forms....Pages 13-24 On some formulas for the characteristic classes of group-actions....Pages 25-61 De rham theory for bΓ....Pages 62-74 Differential geometry and foliations: The godbillon-vey invariant and the bott-pasternack vanishing-theorems....Pages 75-94 Pontryagin polynomial residues of isolated foliation singularities....Pages 95-103 Structures feuilletees....Pages 104-113 Rigidity of the centralizers of diffeomorphisms and structural stability of suspended foliations....Pages 114-121 Integrable perturbations of fibrations and a theorem of seifert....Pages 122-127 Structural stability of foliations with singularities....Pages 128-137 Un theoreme de Thurston etabli au moyen de l'analyse non standard....Pages 138-138 Addendum: Une modification standard de la demonstration non standard de Reeb et schweitzer....Pages 139-140 Croissance des feuilletages presque sans holonomte....Pages 141-182 Sur la theorie des feuilletages associee au repere mobile : cas des feuilletages de lie....Pages 183-195 On the index of isolated closed tori....Pages 196-211 An application of the ρ-invariant....Pages 212-221 G-transversality to CP n ....Pages 222-239 Some problems in foliation theory and related areas....Pages 240-252