Expansive homeomorphisms of compact surfaces are pseudo-Anosov (Q5895251): Difference between revisions

The paper contains a proof of the following Theorem: Every expansive homeomorphism of a compact surface is a pseudo-Anosov homeomorphism. The notion of pseudo-Anosov is well-known for diffeomorphisms, an appropriate definition for homeomorphisms is given in the paper. The author claims that the above result combined with Euler-Poincaré's formula and Kneser's Theorem gives the following: There exist no expansive homeomorphisms on the 2-sphere, the projective plane and the Klein bottle.