Riemannian manifolds not quasi-isometric to leaves in codimension one foliations (Q407802): Difference between revisions

Every open manifold \(L\) of dimension greater than two admits complete Riemannian metrics \(g\) of bounded geometry such that \((L,g)\) is not quasi-isometric to a leaf of a codimension one foliation of a closed manifold. Therefore no conditions on the local geometry of \((L,g)\) suffice to make it quasi-isometric to a leaf of such a foliation. The author introduces the bounded homology property, a semi-local property of \((L,g)\) that is necessary for it to be a leaf in a compact manifold in codimension one, up to quasi-isometry. An essential step involves a Finiteness Lemma and a partial extension of the Novikov closed leaf theorem to higher dimensions.