Expansion growth of smooth codimension-one foliations (Q1915552)

The expansion growth of a foliation is, roughly speaking, the growth of the maximum cardinality of separating sets with respect to a holonomy pseudogroup. It becomes a topologically conjugate invariant for foliations. In this paper, we prove that the expansion growth of a smooth codimension-one foliation on a compact manifold is determined by the level of leaves and the existence of a resilient leaf. This result includes the well-known fact that the entropy of a smooth codimension-one foliation on a compact manifold is positive if and only if there exists a resilient leaf.