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Definition of Foliations
1. foliation [n] - See also: foliation
Lexicographical Neighbors of Foliations
Literary usage of Foliations
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Development of Mathematics in the 19th Century by Felix Klein, Robert Hermann (1979)
"Appendix M THE BORN THEORY OF RIGID MOTIONS IN RELATIVITY AND THE THEORY OF
RIEMANNIAN Foliations 1. INTRODUCTION One of the main topics in physics that ..."
2. The Geometry of Non-linear Differential Equations, Bäcklund Transformations by Robert Hermann (1977)
"They are more-or-less equivalent to the geometric structures called foliations
in the contemporary literature. They play a prominent role in the theory of ..."
3. Constrained Mechanics and Lie Theory by Robert Hermann (1992)
"LIE Foliations 1. Introduction. In the previous Chapter, I have briefly describes
situations where one ends up with a family of Lie algebra structures on ..."
4. Tenby: A Sea-side Holiday by Philip Henry Gosse (1856)
"... Foliations—Leaves—Peculiarities in the Imbibition of ... found in the
Peduncle —Generative Organs—Tentacles—Germs—Foliations—Thread- ..."
5. Sophus Lie's 1880 Transformation Group Paper by Sophus Lie, Robert Hermann (1975)
"21.1 Foliations ADMITTING VECTOR FIELDS If a family 4, = a admits an infinitesimal
transformation, say q, then there are two possible cases. ..."
6. Cartanian Geometry, Nonlinear Waves, and Control Theory. by Robert Hermann (1980)
"RIEMANNIAN MANIFOLDS AS LEAF SPACE OF Foliations DEFINED BY CARTAN PARALLELISMS
Let M be a manifold of dimension n(nl) n+ 2 Choose the ..."
7. Yang-Mills, Kaluza-Klein, and the Einstein Program by Robert Hermann (1978)
"LIE Foliations . THE SPACE OF ALL DISCRETE FLAT CONNECTIONS IN THE CASE OF A
SIMPLY CONNECTED BASE SPACE Continue with (H, Y , it , 0 ,G, (9 ) as before . ..."