Uniqueness of minimal unstable lamination for discretized Anosov flows (Q2069632)

For a partially hyperbolic system, there are invariant foliations tangent to the stable and unstable directions. This paper concerns unstable laminations, that is, closed invariant non-empty subsets of the unstable foliation, and shows in certain settings that there is a unique minimal unstable lamination. This has dynamical consequences as any quasi-attractor has its own minimal unstable lamination, and so a system with a unique minimal unstable lamination has at most one quasi-attractor. Theorem A of the paper concerns a special type of dynamical system called discretized Anosov flow. This is a partially hyperbolic diffeomorphism of the form \(f(x) = \varphi_{\tau(x)}(x)\) where \(\varphi_t\) is a topological Anosov flow in dimension 3 and the function \(\tau\) gives the flow time. In certain families of 3-manifolds, it has been shown that every partially hyperbolic diffeomorphism isotopic to the identity is a discretized Anosov flow [\textit{T. Barthelmé} et al., ``Partially hyperbolic diffeomorphisms homotopic to the identity in dimension 3. I: The dynamically coherent case'', Preprint, \url{arXiv:1908.06227}]. Theorem A states that if \(f\) is a discretized Anosov flow and the corresponding topological Anosov flow is both transitive and not a suspension, then \(f\) has a unique minimal unstable lamination. The other main result of the paper concerns skew-products defined over non-trivial circle bundles. Theorem B states that if \(f\) is a partially hyperbolic skew product where the center foliation is a circle bundle which is not virtually trivial and the quotient dynamics on \(M / \mathcal{W}^c\) is transitive, then \(f\) has a unique minimal unstable lamination.