Remarks on the horocycle flows for foliations by hyperbolic surfaces (Q2832834)

The minimality of the horocycle flow goes back to the work of \textit{G. A. Hedlund} [Duke Math. J. 2, 530--542 (1936; Zbl 0015.10201)], who proved it in the case of closed oriented hyperbolic surfaces. The article under review considers the more general case of a closed smooth manifold \(M\) with a 2-dimensional foliation \(F\) which has constant codimension \(q\), so that \(M\) has a leafwise metric of curvature \(-1\) and all the leaves are dense. In this case, the horocyclic flow lives in the unit tangent bundle of the foliation \(F\). The author shows that this horocyclic flow is minimal under certain conditions. For instance, minimality occurs when \(q=1\) or when \(F\) is a Riemannian foliation which admits a nonplanar leaf. Conjecturally, this holds for any Riemannian foliation.