Leaves of foliated projective structures (Q6562871)

The \(\mathrm{PSL}(4, \mathbb{R})\) Hitchin component of the fundamental group of a closed surface \(S\) consists of holonomies of properly convex foliated projective structures on the unit tangent bundle of \(S\). In the paper under review, the author proves that the leaves of the codimension-1 foliation of any such projective structure are all projectively equivalent if and only if its holonomy is Fuchsian. This implies constraints on the symmetries and shapes of these leaves. The author gives the following application to the topology of the non-\(T_0\) space \(\mathfrak{C}(\mathbb{RP}^n)\) of projective classes of properly convex domains in \(\mathbb{RP}^n\) (\(n\geq 2\)). \textit{J.-P. Benzécri} asked in [Bull. Soc. Math. Fr. 88, 229--332 (1960; Zbl 0098.35204)] if every closed subset of \(\mathfrak{C}(\mathbb{RP}^n)\) that contains no proper nonempty closed subset is a point. The results of the paper under review give a negative answer for \(n\geq 2\).