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Tautly foliated 3-manifolds with no R-covered foliations

Mark Brittenham

math.GTarXiv:math/0011130

Abstract

A foliation of a manifold M is called R-covered if its lift to the universal cover of M has space of leaves R. We show that there are many graph manifolds which admit taut foliations, but which do not admit any R-covered foliations. On the other hand, we show that these manifolds all have finite covers admitting R-covered foliations.

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