This book presents a comprehensive, encyclopedic approach to the subject of foliations, one of the major concepts of modern geometry and topology. It addresses graduate students and researchers and serves as a reference book for experts in the field.

Inhalt

0. Foliations on 2-Manifolds.- 1. Local Theory.- 2. Morse-Smale Foliations.- 3. Foliations Without Holonomy.- 4. Invariants of Foliations.- 5. Curves on Surfaces.- 6. Non-compact Surfaces.- 7. Ergodic Theory.- 8. Homeomorphisms of the Unit Circle.- 9. Diffeomorphisms of Surfaces.- 10. C*-Algebras.- 11. Quadratic Differentials.- 12. Flat Structures.- 13. Principal Curvature Lines.- 14. Differential Equations.- 15. Positive Differential 2-Forms.- 16. Control Theory.- 17. Riemann Surfaces.