Quasigeodesic flows and sphere-filling curves (Q2346434): Difference between revisions

Given a closed hyperbolic 3-manifold \(M\) fibering over the circle, a lift of a fiber defines an embedding \(P \hookrightarrow \mathbb H^3\) of a plane \(P\) (or the interior of a 2-disk) into hyperbolic 3-space \(\mathbb H^3\). \textit{J. W. Cannon} and \textit{W. P. Thurston} [Geom. Topol. 11, 1315--1355 (2007; Zbl 1136.57009)] showed that this embedding extends continuously to a surjective, \(\pi_1\)-equivariant map \(\partial P \hookrightarrow \partial \mathbb H^3\) of the boundaries, and hence defines a sphere-filling curve in \(\partial \mathbb H^3 \cong S^2\). The monodromy of the fibration of \(M\) is pseudo-Anosov, and its suspension gives rise to a pseudo-Anosov flow which turns out to be quasigeodesic (each flowline is a quasi-isometrically embedded line in \(\mathbb H^3\)). ``The main goal of this paper is to show that the continuous extension property can be established in far greater generality and assuming far less initial structure.'' ``Given a closed hyperbolic 3-manifold \(M\) with a quasigeodesic flow, we construct a \(\pi_1\)-equivariant sphere-filling curve in the boundary of hyperbolic 3-space. Specifically, we show that any complete transversal \(P\) to the lifted flow in \(\mathbb H^3\) has a natural compactification to a closed disk that inherits a \(\pi_1\)-action. The embedding \(P \hookrightarrow \mathbb H^3\) extends continuously to the compactification, and restricts to a surjective \(\pi_1\)-equivariant map \(\partial P \hookrightarrow \partial \mathbb H^3\) on the boundary.''