On C⁰-stability of compact leaves with amenable fundamental group

MaRDI QIDQ6509170arXivFDO

Authors Sam Nariman, Mehdi Yazdi

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Means on groups, semigroups, etc.; amenable groups (43A07) Ordered groups (group-theoretic aspects) (20F60) Topological groupoids (including differentiable and Lie groupoids) (22A22) Foliations in differential topology; geometric theory (57R30) Pseudogroups and differentiable groupoids (58H05)

Abstract: In his work on the generalization of the Reeb stability theorem, Thurston conjectured that if the fundamental group of a compact leaf $L$ in a codimension-one transversely orientable foliation is amenable and if the first cohomology group $H^1(L;mathbbR)$ is trivial, then $L$ has a neighborhood foliated as a product. This was later proved as a consequence of Witte-Morris' theorem on the local indicability of amenable left orderable groups and Navas' theorem on the left orderability of the group of germs of orientation-preserving homeomorphisms of the real line at the origin. In this note, we prove that Thurston's conjecture also holds for any foliation that is sufficiently close to the original foliation. Hence, if the fundamental group $p{i}_1(L)$ is amenable and $H^1(L;mathbbR)=0$, then for every transversely orientable codimension-one foliation $mathcalF$ having $L$ as a leaf, there is a neighborhood of $mathcalF$ in the space of $C^{1,0}$ foliations with Epstein $C^0$ topology consisting entirely of foliations that are locally a product $LimesmathbbR$.

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