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48 results for taut laminations

If M is an atoroidal 3-manifold with a taut foliation, Thurston showed that pi_1(M) acts on a circle. Here, we show that some other classes of essential laminations also give rise to actions on circles. In particular, we show this for tight essential laminations with solid torus guts. We also show that pseudo-Anosov fl…

2002-03-19abs ↗pdf ↗

We show that every co--orientable taut foliation F of an orientable, atoroidal 3-manifold admits a transverse essential lamination. If this transverse lamination is a foliation G, the pair F,G are the unstable and stable foliation respectively of an Anosov flow. Otherwise, F admits a pair of transverse very full genuin…

2002-10-10abs ↗pdf ↗

Study of laminations for pseudo-Anosov flows on three-manifolds.

problem Understanding laminations for pseudo-Anosov flows on three-manifolds.
method Analyzing laminations Λu±Λ^\pm_u for pseudo-Anosov orbit space universal circles, using prelaminations and results from Barthelmé, Bonatti, and Mann.
result Laminations Λu+Λ^+_u and ΛuΛ^-_u are completely determined by prelaminations on the boundary of the orbit space.

Whether every hyperbolic 3-manifold admits a tight contact structure or not is an open question. Many hyperbolic 3-manifolds contain taut foliations and taut foliations can be perturbed to tight contact structures. The first examples of hyperbolic 3-manifolds without taut foliations were constructed by Roberts, Sharesh…

2010-04-13abs ↗pdf ↗

This paper explores groups acting on the circle with invariant laminations, called laminar groups.

problem Understanding groups acting on the circle with invariant laminations.
method Review of Thurston's theory of universal circles and follow-up work on invariant laminations.
result Groups acting on the circle with invariant laminations are called laminar groups.

We show that for a taut foliation F with one-sided branching of an atoroidal 3-manifold M, one can construct a pair of genuine laminations with solid torus complementary regions which bind every leaf of F in a geodesic lamination. These laminations come from a universal circle, a refinement of the universal circles pro…

2001-01-03abs ↗pdf ↗

We give an equivalent description of taut submanifolds of complete Riemannian manifolds as exactly those submanifolds whose normal exponential map has the property that every preimage of a point is a union of submanifolds. It turns out that every taut submanifold is also Z2\mathbb Z_2-taut. We explicitely construct gen…

2011-12-27abs ↗pdf ↗

The study of smoothing arcs and curves on surfaces, proving tautness and arc length spectrum properties.

problem Analyzing the geometric and combinatorial effects of smoothing intersections in arcs or curves.
method Geometric and combinatorial analysis, proving tautness and arc length spectrum properties.
result Shortest arcs with self-intersections have exactly or at most one more self-intersection than the self-intersection number.

Tautness of submanifolds in spheres is preserved under Lie sphere transformations.

problem Invariance of tautness under Lie sphere transformations.
method Extending tautness definition to Legendre submanifolds and using Lie sphere transformations to show invariance.
result Tautness is invariant under Lie sphere transformations.

This paper concerns the problem of existence of taut foliations among 3-manifolds. Since the contribution of David Gabai, we know that closed 3-manifolds with non-trivial second homology group admit a taut foliations. The essential part of this paper focuses on Seifert fibered homology 3-spheres. The result is quite di…

2011-01-19abs ↗pdf ↗

Torus leaves play a crucial role in the theory of foliations. For example non-taut foliations admit a torus leaf (see the article of Goodman). In this paper, we study all the foliations near a torus leaf, and try to understand why sometimes it is taut, or non-taut (and Reebless). We focus on some crucial examples to un…

2011-05-16abs ↗pdf ↗

New results show how complex representations are needed to realize taut sutured handlebodies as homology products.

problem Understanding the complexity of representations needed for taut sutured handlebodies as homology products.
method Illustrates the relationship between taut sutured handlebody topology and the complexity of realizing them as homology products.
result Illustrates the complexity of representations needed for taut sutured handlebodies as homology products.

3-manifolds with Heegaard 2 admit taut foliations if their fundamental group is left-orderable.

problem Characterizing 3-manifolds with taut foliations.
method Proving existence of taut foliations based on left-orderability of the fundamental group.
result 3-manifolds with Heegaard genus 2 and left-orderable fundamental group admit co-orientable taut foliations.

A taut ideal triangulation of a 3-manifold is a topological ideal triangulation with extra combinatorial structure: a choice of transverse orientation on each ideal 2-simplex, satisfying two simple conditions. The aim of this paper is to demonstrate that taut ideal triangulations are very common, and that their behavio…

2000-03-22abs ↗pdf ↗

We show the equivalence of several notions in the theory of taut foliations and the theory of tight contact structures. We prove equivalence, in certain cases, of existence of tight contact structures and taut foliations.

2000-10-13abs ↗pdf ↗

New findings on LL-spaces and taut foliations in hyperbolic links.

problem Characterizing LL-spaces and taut foliations in Dehn surgeries on hyperbolic links.
method Analyzing rational homology spheres and using coorientable taut foliations.
result Non-meridional surgeries on fibered hyperbolic two-bridge links support coorientable taut foliations.

Constructs taut foliations for surgeries on positive 3-braids, confirming L-space conjecture.

problem Confirming the L-space conjecture for surgeries on positive 3-braids.
method Constructs taut foliations in 3-manifolds obtained by rr-framed Dehn surgery along positive 3-braids.
result Confirms the L-space conjecture for surgeries on positive 3-braids.

This is a short, elementary survey article about taut submanifolds. In order to simplify the exposition, we restrict to the case of compact smooth submanifolds of Euclidean or spherical spaces. Some new, partial results concerning taut 4-manifolds are discussed at the end of the text.

2006-06-14abs ↗pdf ↗

Floer homology detects taut foliations in rational homology spheres.

problem Detecting taut foliations in rational homology spheres using Floer homology.
method Strengthened the known result about reduced Floer homology of rational homology spheres admitting taut foliations.
result Reduced Floer homology of rational homology spheres admitting taut foliations admits a direct F\mathbb{F}-summand as an F[U]\mathbb{F}[U]-module.

We introduce cosymplectic circles and cosymplectic spheres, which are the analogues in the cosymplectic setting of contact circles and contact spheres. We provide a complete classification of compact 3-manifolds that admit a cosymplectic circle. The properties of tautness and roundness for a cosymplectic pp-sphere are…

2014-06-09abs ↗pdf ↗

A taut contact sphere on a 3-manifold is a linear 2-sphere of contact forms, all defining the same volume form. In the present paper we completely determine the moduli of taut contact spheres on compact left-quotients of SU(2) (the only closed manifolds admitting such structures). We also show that the moduli space of …

2001-10-10abs ↗pdf ↗

In this note we give a characterization of taut Riemannian foliations using the transverse divergence. This result turns out to be a convenient tool in the case of some standard examples. Furthermore, we show that a classical tautness result of Haefliger can be obtained in our particular setting as a straightforward co…

2014-11-26abs ↗pdf ↗

Finite quotients of fibered hyperbolic 3-manifold groups detect taut polynomials.

problem Detecting taut polynomials of fibered faces of Thurston norm balls
method Developing a framework for profinite invariance of twisted multivariable Alexander polynomials
result Proving finite quotients detect taut polynomials

Agol recently introduced the concept of a veering taut triangulation, which is a taut triangulation with some extra combinatorial structure. We define the weaker notion of a "veering triangulation" and use it to show that all veering triangulations admit strict angle structures. We also answer a question of Agol, givin…

2010-11-16abs ↗pdf ↗

This paper proves a converse to Thurston's 1976 observation for taut foliations on hyperbolic 3-manifolds.

problem Proving a converse to Thurston's 1976 observation for taut foliations on hyperbolic 3-manifolds.
method Analyzing the Euler class and using hyperbolic geometry properties.
result For a taut foliation on a hyperbolic 3-manifold, if the Euler characteristic of a closed leaf equals the Euler class, then there exists another taut foliation with the same Euler class.

Study positive braid knots and their taut foliations, proving some L-space conjecture evidence.

problem Understanding positive braid knots and their properties through taut foliations.
method Construct taut foliations in specific 3-manifolds and use them to prove braid positivity and unknot detection.
result Prove some positive evidence towards the L-space conjecture and provide a braid positivity obstruction.

Developed algorithms to compute three polynomial invariants of veering triangulations.

problem Computing polynomial invariants of veering triangulations.
method Introduced and used algorithms for taut, veering, and Teichmüller polynomials based on upper and lower tracks of veering triangulations.
result Proved that the lower and upper taut polynomials are equal but the veering polynomials can differ.

In [Mor], we have introduced a notion of flat laminations on surfaces endowed with a flat structure, similar to geodesic laminations on hyperbolic surfaces. Here is a sequel to this article that aims at defining transversal measures on flat laminations similar to transversal measures on hyperbolic laminations, taking i…

2013-11-29abs ↗pdf ↗

The Euler class of taut foliations on Dehn fillings is studied, leading to new left-orderable slopes.

problem Analyzing the Euler class of taut foliations on Dehn fillings of a Q-homology solid torus.
method Developed a necessary and sufficient condition for the Euler class to vanish, applied to specific manifolds.
result Many new left-orderable Dehn filling slopes are obtained, including for pretzel knots.

In this paper we present some new results on the tautness of Riemannian foliations in their historical context. The first part of the paper gives a short history of the problem. For a closed manifold, the tautness of a Riemannian foliation can be characterized cohomologically. We extend this cohomological characterizat…

2008-05-30abs ↗pdf ↗