Some remarks on a Künneth formula for foliated de Rham cohomology

Abstract

The Künneth formula is one of the basic tools for computing cohomology. Its validity for foliated cohomology, that is, for the tangential de Rham cohomology of a foliated manifold, is investigated. The main difficulty encountered is the non-Hausdorff nature of the foliated cohomology spaces, forbidding the completion of the tensor product. The results presented here are a Künneth formula when both factors have Hausdorff foliated cohomology, a Künneth formula when one factor has Hausdorff finite-dimensional foliated cohomology and a counterexample to an alternative version of the Künneth formula. The proof of the second result involves a right inverse for the foliated de Rham differential.

22 pages. This paper was published in 2011 but has never been posted on the arXiv