The weighted mixed curvature of a foliated manifold


Vladimir Rovenski




We introduce the weighted mixed curvature of an almost product (e.g. foliated) Riemannian manifold equipped with a vector field. We define several qth Ricci type curvatures, which interpolate between the weighed sectional and Ricci curvatures. New concepts of the " mixed-curvature-dimension condition " and " synthetic dimension of a distribution " allow us to renew the estimate of the diameter of a compact Riemannian foliation and splitting results for almost product manifolds of nonnegative/nonpositive weighted mixed scalar curvature. We also study the Toponogov's type conjecture on dimension of a totally geodesic foliation with positive weighted mixed sectional curvature,