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Volume 186, No. 2, (1998), 201-216
Sergio R. Fenley
Continuous Extension of Anosov Foliations in 3-Manifolds with Negatively Curved Fundamental Group
Abstract:
We study Anosov flows in 3-manifolds
whose stable and unstable foliations
in the universal cover have Hausdorff leaf space.
We show that the intrinsic ideal boundaries of
distinct stable leaves can be canonically identified
and similarly for the unstable foliation.
This is then applied to the case when
the 3-manifold has negatively curved
fundamental group and leaves of
the above foliations
extend continuously
to the ideal boundaries.
We prove that the continuous
extension restricted to the ideal boundaries
respects the identifications of intrinsic
ideal points mentioned above.
We also analyse the non injectivity of the extension to the
boundaries and show that there are uncountably many
almost periodic, non periodic
orbits of the flow which lift to flow lines with
same ideal point in both directions.
Finally we prove that the
image of any open set in the domain ideal boundary,
contains open sets in the range ideal boundary.
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