Periodic bunching and invariant foliations (Q1902192)

In the paper in Ergodic Theory Dyn. Syst. 14, No. 4, 645-666 (1994; Zbl 0821.58032) the author established the following result: If all orbits of an Anosov system are uniformly \(\alpha\)-bunched then the Anosov splitting is \(C^\alpha\), \(\alpha \in (0,2)\). On the other hand, the failure of any periodic to be \(\alpha\)-bunched will cause the Anosov splitting not to be \(C^\alpha\). In the present paper it is shown that if all periodic orbits of a topologically transitive Anosov flow (or diffeomorphism) are \(\alpha\)-bunched then all orbits are uniformly \(\alpha\)-bunched. This result leads to a completely sharp description, in terms of periodic points only, of what bunching information is needed to obtain a given regularity of the Anosov splitting.