About the foliations of fibered manifolds (Q960063)

A 3-dimensional compact manifold \(V\) without boundary fibering over the unit circle \(\mathbb{S}^{1}\), having a two torus as fiber and possessing a monodromy diffeomorphism \(\phi\) which is hyperbolic (in the sense that it induces at the homology level a linear application \(\phi_{\star}\) whose trace has absolute value greater than 2) is called ``a closed hyperbolic foliation of genus 1'' by the authors (which is not to be understood as ``\(V\) is a 3-dimensional hyperbolic manifold''). Such a manifold carries two foliations without compact fiber, which are called ``the model foliations''. The authors prove the existence of a foliation of class \(\mathcal C^{1}\) which is not conjugate to any of the models, an exotic foliation. They show that the procedure called ``the Denjoy opening'' which in general gives a \(\mathcal C^{0}\) foliation allows to obtain in this case a \(\mathcal C^{1}\) -foliation. The case of genus greater than 1 is also investigated and some rigidity results are proven. Several open questions are also presented.