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We study (topological) pseudo-Anosov flows from the perspective of the associated group actions on their orbit spaces and boundary at infinity. We extend the definition of Anosov-like action from [BFM22] from the transitive to the general…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-02-16 Thomas Barthelmé , Christian Bonatti , Kathryn Mann

A pseudo-Anosov flow is said to have perfect fits if there are stable and unstable leaves that are asymptotic in the universal cover. We give an algorithm to decide, given a box decomposition of a pseudo-Anosov flow, if the flow has perfect…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-12-02 Layne Hall

A smooth Anosov flow on a closed oriented three manifold $M$ gives rise to a Liouville structure on the four manifold $[-1,1]\times M$ which is not Weinstein, by a construction of Mitsumatsu and Hozoori. We call it the associated Anosov…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2022-11-15 Kai Cieliebak , Oleg Lazarev , Thomas Massoni , Agustin Moreno

In [Orbit equivalences of pseudo-Anosov flows, arXiv:2211.10505], it was proved that transitive pseudo-Anosov flows on any closed 3-manifold are determined up to orbit equivalence by the set of free homotopy classes represented by periodic…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-10-19 Thomas Barthelmé , Sergio Fenley , Kathryn Mann

In this article we analyze totally periodic pseudo-Anosov flows in graph three manifolds. This means that in each Seifert fibered piece of the torus decomposition, the free homotopy class of regular fibers has a finite power which is also a…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-07-09 Thierry Barbot , Sergio R. Fenley

Building on the work of Eliashberg and Thurston, we associate to a taut foliation on a closed oriented $3$-manifold $M$ a Liouville structure on the thickening $[-1,1] \times M$, under suitable hypotheses. Our main result shows that this…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-10-20 Jonathan Bowden , Thomas Massoni

In this article we obtain a simple topological and dynamical systems condition which is necessary and sufficient for an arbitrary pseudo-Anosov flow in a closed, hyperbolic three manifold to be quasigeodesic. Quasigeodesic means that orbits…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2016-07-01 Sergio R Fenley

David Gabai showed that disk decomposable knot and link complements carry taut foliations of depth one. In an arbitrary sutured 3-manifold M, such foliations F, if they exist at all, are determined up to isotopy by an associated ray [F]…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2009-09-25 John Cantwell , Lawrence Conlon

We construct Anosov flows in certain circle bundles over closed hyperbolic 3-manifolds, producing counterexamples to a conjecture of Verjovsky. Some of these 4-manifolds admit infinitely many distinct Anosov flows up to orbit equivalence.…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Sergio Fenley , Kathryn Mann , Rafael Potrie

Motivated by problems in the study of Anosov and pseudo-Anosov flows on 3-manifolds, we characterize when a pair $(L^+, L^-)$ of subsets of transverse laminations of the circle can be completed to a pair of transverse foliations of the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2024-10-25 Thomas Barthelmé , Christian Bonatti , Kathryn Mann

We show that if M is a hyperbolic 3-manifold which admits a quasigeodesic flow, then pi_1(M) acts faithfully on a universal circle by homeomorphisms, and preserves a pair of invariant laminations of this circle. As a corollary, we show that…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2009-04-22 Danny Calegari

Suppose that $\mathcal F$ is a transversely oriented, codimension one foliation of a connected, closed, oriented 3-manifold. Suppose also that $\mathcal F$ has continuous tangent plane field and is {\sl taut}; that is, closed smooth…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2018-03-16 William H. Kazez , Rachel Roberts

For each natural number n, we construct an example of a graph manifold supporting at least n different Anosov flows that are not orbit equivalent. Our construction is reminiscent of the Thurston-Handel construction: we cut a geodesic flow…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-03-23 Adam Clay , Tali Pinsky

In this paper, we prove that given two $C^1$ foliations $\mathcal{F}$ and $\mathcal{G}$ on $\mathbb{T}^2$ which are transverse, there exists a non-null homotopic loop $\{\Phi_t\}_{t\in[0,1]}$ in $\diff^{1}(\T^2)$ such that…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2024-05-22 Christian Bonatti , Jinhua Zhang

A foliation is R-covered if the leaf space in the universal cover is homeomorphic to the real numbers. We show that, up to topological conjugacy, there are at most two pseudo-Anosov flows transverse to such a foliation. If there are two,…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Sergio R Fenley

In this article we study the topological structure of the lifts to the universal of the stable and unstable foliations of $3$-dimensional Anosov flows. In particular we consider the case when these foliations do not have Hausdorff leaf…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2009-09-25 Sergio R. Fenley

The main result of this paper is a universal finiteness theorem for the set of all small dilatation pseudo-Anosov homeomorphisms, ranging over all surfaces. More precisely, we consider pseudo-Anosovs F:S to S with |chi(S)| log(lambda(F))…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2009-05-05 Benson Farb , Christopher J. Leininger , Dan Margalit

For a transitive Anosov flow $\Phi$ on 3-dimensional closed manifold $M$ , we realize its Teichm\"uller space in the sense of smooth orbit-equivalence classes as a product of two function spaces. As an application, we show the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Ruihao Gu , Yi Shi

Using results relating taut foliations and pseudo-Anosov flows, we find cusped hyperbolic 3-manifolds which are not the non-singular part of a pseudo-Anosov flow. In particular, we find the first examples of cusped hyperbolic 3-manifolds…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2024-03-27 Misha Schmalian

We show that the action on its orbit space induced by a pseudo-Anosov flow on a closed $3$-manifold (and more general Anosov-like actions) can be seen as an isometric action on a Gromov-hyperbolic space. When the flow is not $\R$-covered,…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-05-14 Thomas Barthelmé , Kathryn Mann , Neige Paulet , Abdul Zalloum