The Geometry of R{covered foliations
The Geometry of R{covered foliations
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R{覆盖叶面的几何形状
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1999
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Danny Calegari
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Danny Calegari
We study R{covered foliations of 3{manifolds from the point of view of their transverse geometry. For an R{covered foliation in an atoroidal 3{manifold M , we show that f M can be partially compactied by a canonical cylinder S 1 R on which 1(M ) acts by elements of Homeo(S 1 )Homeo(R), where the S 1 factor is canonically identied with the circle at innity of each leaf of e F . We construct a pair of very full genuine laminations transverse to each other and to F , which bind every leaf of F . This pair of laminations can be blown down to give a transverse regulating pseudo-Anosov flow for F , analogous to Thurston’s structure theorem for surface bundles over a circle with pseudo-Anosov monodromy. A corollary of the existence of this structure is that the underlying manifold M is homotopy rigid in the sense that a self-homeomorphism homotopic to the identity is isotopic to the identity. Furthermore, the product structures at innity are rigid under deformations of the foliation F through R{covered foliations, in the sense that the representations of 1(M )i nHomeo((S 1 )t) are all conjugate for a family parameterized by t. Another corollary is that the ambient manifold has word-hyperbolic fundamental group. Finally we speculate on connections between these results and a program to prove the geometrization conjecture for tautly foliated 3{manifolds. AMS Classication numbers Primary: 57M50, 57R30 Secondary: 53C12