Novikov's compact leaf theorem
= Novikov's compact leaf theorem
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Novikov's Compact Leaf Theorem is a result in the field of differential topology, particularly in the study of foliations on smooth manifolds. It addresses the existence of compact leaves in a certain class of foliations, which are decompositions of a manifold into disjoint submanifolds called leaves.