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We show that every atoroidal endperiodic map of an infinite-type surface can be obtained from a depth one foliation in a fibered hyperbolic 3-manifold, reversing a well-known construction of Thurston. This can be done almost-transversely to…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2023-04-24 Michael P. Landry , Yair N. Minsky , Samuel J. Taylor

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

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

A 3-manifold is foliar if it supports a codimension-one co-oriented taut foliation. Suppose $M$ is an oriented 3-manifold with connected boundary a torus, and suppose $M$ contains a properly embedded, compact, oriented, surface $R$ with a…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2019-12-13 Charles Delman , Rachel Roberts

Given a uniform foliation by Gromov hyperbolic leaves on a $3$-manifold, we show that the action of the fundamental group on the universal circle is minimal and transitive on pairs of different points. We also prove two other results: we…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2021-05-18 Sergio Fenley , Rafael Potrie

Several results in recent years have shown that the usual generalizations of taut foliations to higher dimensions, based only on topological concepts, lead to a theory that lacks the complexity of its 3-dimensional counterpart. Instead, we…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-01-08 Fabio Gironella , Klaus Niederkrüger , Lauran Toussaint

For certain pseudo-Anosov flows $\phi$ on closed $3$-manifolds, unpublished work of Agol--Gu\'eritaud produces a veering triangulation $\tau$ on the manifold $M$ obtained by deleting $\phi$'s singular orbits. We show that $\tau$ can be…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2022-08-09 Michael P. Landry , Yair N. Minsky , Samuel J. Taylor

This paper provides a canonical compactification of the plane ${\mathbb R}^2$ by adding a circle at infinity associated to a countable family of singular foliations or laminations (under some hypotheses), generalizing an idea by Mather…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-01-12 Christian Bonatti

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

The theory of twistors on foliated manifolds is developed and the twistor space of the normal bundle is constructed. It is demonstrated that the classical constructions of the twistor theory lead to foliated objects and permit to formulate…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-02-08 Rouzbeh Mohseni , Robert A. Wolak

We prove a classification theorem for transitive Anosov and pseudo-Anosov flows on closed 3-manifolds, up to orbit equivalence. In many cases, flows on a 3-manifold $M$ are completely determined by the set of free homotopy classes of their…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-11-22 Thomas Barthelmé , Steven Frankel , Kathryn Mann

This paper is the third in a sequence establishing a dictionary between the combinatorics of veering triangulations equipped with appropriate filling slopes, and the dynamics of pseudo-Anosov flows (without perfect fits) on closed…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-04-01 Steven Frankel , Saul Schleimer , Henry Segerman

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

We define a norm on the homology of a foliated manifold, which refines and majorizes the usual Gromov norm on homology. This norm depends in an upper semi-continuous way on the underlying foliation, in the geometric topology, and can…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Danny Calegari

In 1976 D. Sullivan gave an example of a flow on a compact manifold such that each one of its orbits is a circle and with the surprising property that there is no finite upper bound for their length. The aim of this article is to show that…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2014-06-25 Pablo D. Carrasco

There exists a smooth foliation with 3 singular points on the two-dimensional torus such that any lifting of a leaf of this foliation on the universal covering of the torus is a dense subset of the covering.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Dmitri Panov

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

We present a new construction of codimension-one foliations from pairs of contact structures in dimension three. This constitutes a converse result to a celebrated theorem of Eliashberg and Thurston on approximations of foliations by…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2024-05-27 Thomas Massoni

Thurston and Calegari-Dunfield showed that the fundamental group of some tautly foliated hyperbolic 3-manifold acts on the circle in a distinctive way that the action preserves some structure of S^1, so-called a circle lamination. Indeed, a…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2023-03-08 Hyungryul Baik , KyeongRo Kim

We define and study the foliated centralizer: the group of $C^\infty$ centralizer elements of the lift of an Anosov system on a non-compact manifold which additionally preserve the stable and unstable foliations. When the Anosov system is…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2024-02-16 Daniel Mitsutani