The minimal expanding-or-contracting foliation conjecture in dimension three

Let M3M^3 be a three-dimensional manifold, let mm denote Lebesgue measure, and let Diffm1(M3)\operatorname{Diff}^{1}_{m}(M^3) be the space of C1C^1 Lebesgue-measure-preserving diffeomorphisms. A foliation is minimal if every leaf is dense, and an invariant expanding or contracting foliation is one arising from an invariant expanding or contracting one-dimensional subbundle. Minimal foliation conjecture. Generically in Diffm1(M3)\operatorname{Diff}^{1}_{m}(M^3), if ff has positive metric entropy, then there exists a minimal invariant expanding or contracting foliation. The source presents this as a possible approach to the positive-entropy stable ergodicity conjecture; it remains open.

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Gabriel Nuñez and Jana Rodriguez Hertz, “Stable minimality of expanding foliations”, arXiv:1908.09079 (2020).

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