Instituto de Matemática, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, P. O. Box 68530, 21945-970 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Abstract:
We prove that a torus transverse to an Axiom A vector field that does not exhibit sinks, sources or null homotopic periodic orbits on a closed irreducible -manifold is incompressible. This strengthens the works of Brunella (1993), Fenley (1995), and Mosher (1992).