Flags of holomorphic foliations

Abstract

A flag of holomorphic foliations on a complex manifold M is an object consisting of a finite number of singular holomorphic foliations on M of growing dimensions such that the tangent sheaf of a fixed foliation is a subsheaf of the tangent sheaf of any of the foliations of higher dimension. We study some basic properties oft hese objects and, in <img src="/img/revistas/aabc/2011nahead/aop2411pcn.jpg" align="absmiddle" />, n > 3, we establish some necessary conditions for a foliation, we find bounds of lower dimension to leave invariant foliations of codimension one. Finally, still in <img src="/img/revistas/aabc/2011nahead/aop2411pcn.jpg" align="absmiddle" /> involving the degrees of polar classes of foliations in a flag.

holomorphic foliations; polar varieties; invariant varieties