VERTICAL TANGENTIAL INVARIANTS ON SOME FOLIATED LAGRANGE SPACES

Abstract

In this paper we consider a decomposition of tangentially differential forms with respect to the lifted foliation [Formula: see text] to the tangent bundle of a Lagrange space [Formula: see text] endowed with a regular foliation [Formula: see text]. First, starting from a natural decomposition of the tangential exterior derivative along the leaves of [Formula: see text], we define some vertical tangential cohomology groups of the foliated manifold [Formula: see text], we prove a Poincaré lemma for the vertical tangential derivative and we obtain a de Rham theorem for this cohomology. Next, in a classical way, we construct vertical tangential characteristic classes of tangentially smooth complex bundles over the foliated manifold [Formula: see text].