Foliations with one-sided branching (Q1868428)

This paper extends the main ideas and theorems of the author's previous paper [ Geom. Topol. 4, 457--515 (2000; Zbl 0964.57014)] to taut foliations with one-sided branching. The main result proved by the author is that for any taut foliation \(\mathcal F\) with one-sided branching of an atoroidal 3-manifold \(M\), one can construct a pair of genuine laminations \(\Lambda^{\pm}\) of \(M\) transverse to \(\mathcal F\) with solid torus complementary regions which bind every leaf of \(\mathcal F\) in a geodesic lamination. The pair of laminations \(\Lambda^{\pm}\) can be `blown down' to a pseudo-Anosov flow transverse to the foliation which is \textit{regulating} in the nonbranching direction, i.e., flow lines in the universal cover are properly embedded in the leaf space in the non-branching direction.