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We derive and apply a new integral formula for a closed Riemannian manifold equipped with a pair of complementary orthogonal distributions (plane fields). The integrand depends on the second fundamental forms and integrability tensors of the distributions, their covariant derivatives, and of the Ricci curvature of the ambient manifold. Also, we discuss some applications of this formula and of another formula of this sort, the one obtained earlier by the second author, and show that both formulae may hold when the distributions are defined only outside a “reasonable” closed subset of the manifold under consideration.

In this article, we show that the Newton transformations of the shape operator can be applied successfully to foliated manifolds. Using these transformations, we generalize known integral formulae (due to Brito–Langevin–Rosenberg, Ranjan, Walczak, etc.) for foliations of codimension one. We obtain integral formulae involving rth mean curvature of the second fundamental form of a foliation, the Jacobi operator in the direction orthogonal to the foliation, and their products. We apply our formulae to totally umbilical foliations and foliations whose leaves have constant second order mean curvature.