Totally Geodesic Riemannian Foliations on Compact Lie Groups

Abstract

In 86, Ranjan questioned whether a submersion $\pi: G\to B$ from a compact simple Lie group with bi-invariant metric is a coset foliation or not, provided the submersion is Riemannian with totally geodesic fibers. Here we answer this question affirmatively, even when the submersion is defined only in an open subset of $G$ (assuming suitable hypothesis).