Homeomorphisms of the line and a foliation

This paper considers foliations of codimension one and class $C^i$, $i\geqslant0$. Under specified restrictions on the fundamental group of a Novikov component the study of such a foliation can be reduced to studying the representation of the fundamental group as homeomorphisms of the line. As a result theorems are obtained about the existence of a compact leaf. Applications are obtained to the real-analytic foliations and Anosov foliations.
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