Bijection conjecture between almost transverse pseudo-Anosov flows and universal circles

Let F\mathcal{F} be a taut foliation of an atoroidal 3-manifold MM which is not R\mathbb{R}-covered. Let PA(F)\mathrm{PA}(\mathcal{F}) be the set of pseudo-Anosov flows almost transverse to F\mathcal{F}, up to orbit equivalence, and let UC(F)\mathrm{UC}(\mathcal{F}) be the set of π1(M)\pi_1(M)-circle actions arising from universal circles of F\mathcal{F}, up to semiconjugacy. For φPA(F)\varphi\in\mathrm{PA}(\mathcal{F}), write Oφ\mathcal{O}_\varphi for its orbit space. Bijection conjecture. The assignment

φ(π1(M)Oφ)\varphi\mapsto\bigl(\pi_1(M)\curvearrowright\partial\mathcal{O}_\varphi\bigr)

determines a bijection

PA(F)UC(F).\mathrm{PA}(\mathcal{F})\to\mathrm{UC}(\mathcal{F}).

This proposes a classification of almost transverse pseudo-Anosov flows by the universal-circle actions associated with the foliation. The source presents it as a strategy toward the classification problem; no resolution is supplied here.

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Michael P. Landry, Yair N. Minsky and Samuel J. Taylor, “Simultaneous universal circles”, arXiv:2412.06986 (2024).

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