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The aim of this article is to give a new dynamical proof of the Ferrand–Obata theorem when the manifold is compact. This will give us a generalisation of this theorem to transversally conformal foliations ofcodimension greater than three and constant basic functions.
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Frances, C., Tarquini, C. Autour du théorème de Ferrand–Obata (Concerning the Theorem of Ferrand–Obata). Annals of Global Analysis and Geometry 21, 51–62 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1014287714725
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