Anosov diffeomorphisms on Thurston geometric 4-manifolds (Q2039271)

The main result of the paper is that a closed 4-manifold has no transitive Anosov diffeomorphism if it carries a Thurston geometry other than \(\mathbb{R}^4\), \(\mathbb{H}^2\times\mathbb{R}^2\), or the reducible \(\mathbb{H}^2\times\mathbb{H}^2\) geometry. Here a diffeomorphism is called transitive if there exists a point whose orbit is dense in the manifold under consideration. This result is motivated by the conjecture that any Anosov diffeomorphism of a closed manifold is finitely covered by a diffeomorphism which is topologically conjugate to a hyperbolic automorphism of a nilmanifold (see [\textit{S. Smale}, Bull. Am. Math. Soc. 73, 747--817 (1967; Zbl 0202.55202)]).