Transitive partially hyperbolic diffeomorphisms on 3-manifolds (Q1771807)

A partially hyperbolic diffeomeorphism is a diffeomorphism \(f\) on a Riemannian manifold \(M\) for which the tangent bundle \(TM\) admits an \(f_{*}\)-invariant splitting in three parts: a subbundle \(E^s\) on which \(f_{*}\) contracts uniformly, a subbundle \(E^u\) on which \(f_{*}\) expands uniformly, and a subbundle \(E^c\) on which the action of \(f_{*}\) is less contracting than in \(E^s\) and less expanding than in \(E^u\). Partially hyperbolic diffeomorphisms appear naturally in the theory of dynamical systems within stable ergodicity and robust transitivity. The present paper is a study of transitive partially hyperbolic diffeomorphisms on 3-manifolds. Such diffeomorphisms belong to three basic classes: perturbations of skew products over an Anosov map of the 2-torus, perturbations of the time one map of a transitive Anosov flow, and certain derived from Anosov diffeomorphisms of the 3-torus. The authors characterize the first two types by a local hypothesis associated to one closed periodic curve.