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Diffeomorphisms on surfaces with a finite number of moduli

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 September 2008

W. de Melo  and
S.J. van Strien
W. de Melo
Affiliation:
IMPA, Estrada Dona Castorina, 110, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil;
S.J. van Strien
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Techniche Hogeschool Delft, 2628 BL Delft, Julianalaan, 134, Holland
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Abstract

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This paper generalises the well known structural stability theorem which says that a diffeomorphism is structurally stable if it is Axiom A and if all invariant manifolds are transversal to each other.

If these transversality conditions are not satisfied then the diffeomorphism not only fails to be stable, but also this gives rise to the appearance of moduli. That is, one needs several real parameters to parameterise all conjugacy classes of nearby diffeomorphisms. (The minimum number of parameters needed is called the number of moduli).

Here we deal with diffeomorphisms on two dimensional manifolds, whose asymptotic dynamics are well understood (the class of Axiom A diffeomorphisms). The main result characterises those Axiom A diffeomorphisms which have a finite number of moduli. This result can be regarded as a generalisation of the structural stability theorem. From the proofs it follows that the dynamics of these diffeomorphisms can also be well understood.

In the proof of our main theorem we need certain invariant foliations to be quite smooth. In an appendix we prove a differentiable version of the Lambda Lemma.

Type
Research Article
Information
Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems , Volume 7 , Issue 3 , September 1987 , pp. 415 - 462
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1987

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