Minimal leaves in foliations

Abstract:

The paper defines a property of open Riemannian manifolds, called quasi-homogeneity. This property is quasi-isometry invariant and is shown to hold for any manifold which appears as a minimal leaf in a foliation. Examples are given of surfaces which are not quasi-homogeneous. One such is the well-known noncompact leaf of Reeb’s foliation of ${S^3}$. These surfaces have bounded geometry.