# Horizontal holonomy and foliated manifolds

Abstract : We introduce horizontal holonomy groups, which are groups defined using parallel transport only along curves tangent to a given subbundle $D$ of the tangent bundle. We provide explicit means of computing these holonomy groups by deriving analogues of Ambrose-Singer's and Ozeki's theorems. We then give necessary and sufficient conditions in terms of the horizontal holonomy groups for existence of solutions of two problems on foliated manifolds: determining when a foliation can be either (a) totally geodesic or (b) endowed with a principal bundle structure. The subbundle $D$ plays the role of an orthogonal complement to the leaves of the foliation in case (a) and of a principal connection in case (b).
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Yacine Chitour, Erlend Grong, Frédéric Jean, Petri Kokkonen. Horizontal holonomy and foliated manifolds. Annales de l'Institut Fourier, Association des Annales de l'Institut Fourier, 2019, 69 (3), pp.1047-1086. ⟨10.5802/aif.3265⟩. ⟨hal-01268119⟩

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