We study smooth foliations of compact manifolds where the set of noncompact leaves has zero Lebesgue measure (and is nonempty). We review a simple example due to Reeb and provide two new examples that show more complicated behavior that may occur.
@article{1113246669,
author = {Payne, Tracy L.},
title = {Essentially compact foliations that are not compact},
journal = {Tohoku Math. J. (2)},
volume = {56},
number = {1},
year = {2004},
pages = { 317-326},
language = {en},
url = {http://dml.mathdoc.fr/item/1113246669}
}
Payne, Tracy L. Essentially compact foliations that are not compact. Tohoku Math. J. (2), Tome 56 (2004) no. 1, pp. 317-326. http://gdmltest.u-ga.fr/item/1113246669/