On flat manifold bundles and the connectivity of Haefliger's classifying spaces

We investigate a conjecture due to Haefliger and Thurston in the context of foliated manifold bundles. In this context, Haefliger-Thurston's conjecture predicts that every $M$-bundle over a manifold $B$ where $\text{ dim}(B)\leq \text{ dim}(M)$ is cobordant to a flat $M$-bundle. In particular, we study the bordism class of flat $M$-bundles over low dimensional manifolds, comparing a finite dimensional Lie group $G$ with $\text{ Diff}_0(G)$ and localizing the holonomy of flat M-bundles to be supported in a ball.

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