Almost continuous extension for taut foliations

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Abstract: A taut foliation of a hyperbolic 3-manifold has the continuous extension property for leaves in almost every direction; that is, for each leaf of the universal cover of the foliation and almost every geodesic ray in the leaf, the limit of the ray in the universal cover of the 3-manifold is a well-defined point in the ideal boundary.


Let \(M\) be a hyperbolic 3-manifold and \({\mathcal F}\) a taut foliation and \(\widetilde M\) the universal cover of \(M\). Then \(\widetilde M= \mathbb{H}^3\) and there is a natural ideal boundary \(S^2_\infty\). For any metric on \(M\), the leaves \(\lambda\) of \(\widetilde{\mathcal F}\) are uniformly quasi-isometric to \(\mathbb{H}^2\); there is a well-defined circle at infinity, \(S^1_\infty (\lambda) \). Question: Does the inclusion \(i:\lambda\to \widetilde M=\mathbb{H}^3\) extend continuously to a map \(i_\partial:S^1_\infty (\lambda)\to S^2_\infty (\mathbb{H}^3)\)? The aim of this paper is to show that \({\mathcal F}\) has the continuous extension property for leaves in almost every direction. The author proves the following theorem: With notation as above, for every leaf \(\lambda\) of \(\widetilde {\mathcal F}\), for almost all geodesic rays \(r\subset\lambda\), the ray \(r\subset \mathbb{H}^3\) converges to a definite point in \(S^2_\infty\), and defines a measurable map \(i_\partial:S^1 (\lambda)\to S^2_\infty (\mathbb{H}^3)\). Finally, some remarks on the proof are considered: Hyperbolic 3-space grows in volume like \(O(e^{2t})=\) the area of a sphere of radius \(t\) in \(\mathbb{H}^3\).











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