Projectively Anosov flows with differentiable (un)stable foliations

Abstract

We consider projectively Anosov flows with differentiable stable and unstable foliations. We characterize the flows on T 2 which can be extended on a neighbourhood of T 2 into a projectively Anosov flow so that T 2 is a compact leaf of the stable foliation. Furthermore, to realize this extension on an arbitrary closed 3-manifold, the topology of this manifold plays an essential role. Thus, we give the classification of projectively Anosov flows on T 3 . In this case, the only flows on T 2 which extend to T 3 (in the above way) are the linear flows.