Transitive partially hyperbolic diffeomorphisms with one-dimensional neutral center (Q2198334)

The aim of this paper is to study partially hyperbolic diffeomorphism with some specific properties. A diffeomorphism of a manifold of class \(C^1\) is said to be partially hyperbolic when the tangent bundle decomposes as the direct sum of a uniformly expanding bundle, a uniformly contracting bundle, and a bundle with intermediate behavior, the center. Furthermore it is called topologically neutral along the center if its iterates map short paths tangent to the center subbundle to short paths, uniformly on \(n\). A diffeomorphism is called transitive if it has dense orbits. The authors classify topologically (namely up to conjugation by a homeomorphism) diffeomorphisms of closed three-manifolds that are partially hyperbolic, transitive, and have one-dimensional topological neutral center. Namely, up to finite lifts and iterates, these are conjugate to either skew products over a linear Anosov diffeomorphism of the torus with a rotation of the circle, or the time 1-map of a transitive topological Anosov flow. In arbitrary dimension, the authors prove that there exists a continuous metric along the center foliation that is dynamically invariant. Then this result is used for the classification in dimension three.