Mathematisches Institut, Universität zu Köln, Weyerthal 86-90, 50931 Köln, Germany
Abstract:
We give a necessary and sufficient condition for a submanifold with parallel focal structure to give rise to a global foliation of the ambient space by parallel and focal manifolds. We show that this is a singular Riemannian foliation with complete orthogonal transversals. For this object we construct an action on the transversals that generalizes the Weyl group action for polar actions.