Surgery for partially hyperbolic dynamical systems. II: Blow-up of a complex curve (Q2043097)

The authors present an approach to construct new examples of volume-preserving partially hyperbolic flows. The main result states the following. Let \({\varphi^t:M\to M}\) be a partially hyperbolic flow with \(C^1\) invariant splitting \({E^s\oplus E^c\oplus E^u}\) and let \({N\subset M}\) be an invariant Anosov submanifold of \(M\) (i.e., the tangent bundle \({TN=E^s\oplus\dot{\varphi}\oplus E^u}\) and consequently \({\varphi^t|_N}\) is an Anosov flow). Assume that the \(\varphi^t\) is locally fiberwise at \(N,\) i.e., a neighborhood of \(N\) can be smoothly identified with \({\mathbb{D}^k\times N},\) and the restriction \(\varphi^t|_{\mathbb{D}^k\times N}\) has the form \[ \varphi^t(x,y)=(a^t(x),\varphi^t|_N(y)),\ a^t \ \text{is a linear hyperbolic saddle flow}. \] Let \(\hat{M}\) be the blow-up manifold which is the result of replacing \({\mathbb{D}^k\times N}\) with \({(\mathbb{D}^k\#\mathbb{R}P^k )\times N}\). Let \(\hat{\varphi}^t:\hat{M}\to\hat{M}\) be induced map such that \({\varphi^t(\pi(x))=\pi(\hat{\varphi}^t(x))},\) where \({\pi:\hat{M}\to M}\) is a canonical blow-down map which collapses each projective space to its base point. Then there exists a partially hyperbolic flow \({\tilde{\varphi}^t :\hat{M}\to\hat{M}}\) which coincides with \({\hat{\varphi}^t}\) outside of a neighborhood of the exceptional set \({\pi^{-1}(\{0\}\times N)}\). The proof relies on tools developed in the first part of the work [the authors, Geom. Topol. 22, No. 4, 2219--2252 (2018; Zbl 1386.37032)] and uses some slow-down construction in the neighborhood of the Anosov submanifold.