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Embedded leaves need not be closed and leaves need not be embedded
Statement
There are regular foliations for which one leaf is embedded but not closed in the ambient manifold, and there are regular foliations for which one leaf is an injectively immersed submanifold that is not embedded.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: Standard one-dimensional foliations on an annulus and on the two-torus.
Use the spiral field on an annulus and the irrational linear flow on the torus.
Proof
On the annulus , the vector field [given] is nowhere zero, so its integral curves form a regular one-dimensional foliation. The circle is one leaf, and every nearby noncircular leaf is a non-self-intersecting spiral whose closure contains that circle. Such a spiral leaf is embedded but not closed in .
On the torus , the constant vector [given] field generated by with irrational gives a regular foliation by injectively immersed images of . Each leaf is dense in , hence cannot be embedded.
Therefore global Frobenius theory correctly concludes only that leaves are [given] injectively immersed; neither closedness nor embeddedness is automatic.
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Sources
- Will J. Merry, Differential Geometry (standard reference, not scraped)