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Affine Hirsch foliations on $3$–manifolds

### Bin Yu

Algebraic & Geometric Topology 17 (2017) 1743–1770
##### Abstract

This paper is devoted to discussing affine Hirsch foliations on $3$–manifolds. First, we prove that up to isotopic leaf-conjugacy, every closed orientable $3$–manifold $M$ admits zero, one or two affine Hirsch foliations. Furthermore, every case is possible.

Then we analyze the $3$–manifolds admitting two affine Hirsch foliations (we call these Hirsch manifolds). On the one hand, we construct Hirsch manifolds by using exchangeable braided links (we call such Hirsch manifolds DEBL Hirsch manifolds); on the other hand, we show that every Hirsch manifold virtually is a DEBL Hirsch manifold.

Finally, we show that for every $n\in ℕ$, there are only finitely many Hirsch manifolds with strand number $n$. Here the strand number of a Hirsch manifold $M$ is a positive integer defined by using strand numbers of braids.

##### Keywords
affine Hirsch foliation, classification, exchangeable braid
##### Mathematical Subject Classification 2010
Primary: 57M50, 57R32
Secondary: 37E10, 57M25
##### Publication
Received: 16 April 2016
Revised: 12 October 2016
Accepted: 18 December 2016
Published: 17 July 2017
##### Authors
 Bin Yu School of Mathematical Sciences Tongji University 200092 Shanghai China