I am a Professor in the Mathematics Department.

Education

How to find me.

• My office is in Phillips Hall 388. My office phone number is: (919) 962-1268.
• You can also email me at plante@math.unc.edu.

My research interests

My research is concerned with the geometric study of dynamical systems. The main focus has been on foliations and actions by Lie groups on manifolds.

I am a member of the AMS

Selected Publications

1. Elementary zeros of Lie algebras of vector fields, Topology 30 (2) (1991), 215-222.
2. Fixed points of Lie group actions on surfaces, Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems 6 (1986), 149-161.
3. Solvable groups acting on the line, Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 278 (1) (1983), 401-414.
4. Foliations of 3-manifolds with solvable fundamental group, Invent. Math. 51(1979), 219-230.
5. (joint with W. Thurston) Polynomial growth in holonomy groups of foliations, Comment. Math. Helvet. 51(1976), 567-584.
6. Foliations with measure preserving holonomy, Annals of Math. 102(1975), 327-361.
7. A generalization of the Poincare-Bendixson theorem for foliations of codimension one, Topology 12 (2) (1973), 177-182.
8. Asymptotic properties of foliations, Comment. Math. Helvet. 47 (4) (1972), 449-456.
9. (joint with W. Thurston) Anosov flows and the fundamental group, Topology 11(1972), 147-150.
10. Anosov flows, American Jour. Math. 94 (3) (1972), 729-755.