Riemannian foliations of projective space admitting complex leaves
arXiv:1202.5989
Abstract
Motivated by Gray's work on tube formulae for complex submanifolds of complex projective space equipped with the Fubini-Study metric, Riemannian foliations of projective space are studied. We prove that there are no complex Riemannian foliations of any open subset of of codimension one. As a consequence there is no Riemannian foliation of the projective plane by Riemann surfaces, even locally. We determine how a complex submanifold may arise as an exceptional leaf of a non-trivial singular Riemannian foliation of maximal dimension. Gray's tube formula is applied to obtain a volume bound for certain holomorphic curves of complex quadrics.
To appear in Rend. Semin. Mat. Univ. Politec. Torino