Classification of partially hyperbolic surface endomorphisms (Q2123144)

A partially hyperbolic endomorphism \(f\) is said to be dynamically coherent if there exists an \(f\)-invariant foliation tangent to the center bundle. We say that the dynamically coherent endomorphisms \(f\) and \(g\) are leaf conjugate if there exists a homeomorphism \(h\) which takes center leaves of \(f\) to center leaves of \(g\), and which satisfies \(h( f (\mathcal L)) = g(h(\mathcal L))\) for every center leaf \(\mathcal L\) of \(f\). The authors show that in the absence of periodic center annuli, a partially hyperbolic surface endomorphism is dynamically coherent and leaf conjugate to its linearization. Afterwards, they give a characterization of endomorphisms with periodic center annuli, completing a classification of partially hyperbolic surface endomorphisms.