Pertubation of the dynamics of diffeomorphisms in the \(C^1\)-topology (Q2869769)

The author compiles the results, conjectures and open problems at the present state of knowledge about the dynamics of \(C^1\) diffeomorphisms on compact manifolds. He discusses and explains diverse perturbation techniques that lead either to \(C^1\)-generic properties or to particular non-trivial examples.NEWLINENEWLINEThe methodologies of study of \(C^1\) diffeomorphisms allow to perturb the system while controlling its global dynamics. Some of these perturbation methods are very delicate. In fact, as the author remarks, a local perturbation of the diffeomorphism may cause a radical change in the global behaviour of the dynamics.NEWLINENEWLINEInspired by the conjectures of Smale and Palis, the author presents a general des\-cription of hyperbolic and non-hyperbolic behaviour. So, uniformly, non-uniformly, partially and essentially hyperbolic systems are studied, and more generally diffeomorphisms with dominated splitting, in contrast to those with homoclinic tangencies and heterodimensional cycles.NEWLINENEWLINEAlong the first two chapters a general overview of the whole book is presented, joint with the basic definitions and the statements of some theorems and conjectures. From Chapter 3 to 11, each type of perturbation technique is presented separately to found the results that are obtained from them, and their mutual relations. In most chapters, the discussion about the theorems and conjectures is ended with the proposal of open questions. Although most proofs are not included in the book, the explanations of the roles of the different perturbation methods, plus the original, well-organized and updated presentation of the results all together, are very valuable to motivate the reader. For the detailed proofs the author directs the reader to the original articles, providing a good list of bibliographic references.NEWLINENEWLINEThe book is organized as follows: First, the loss of transversality, the closing and connecting lemmas, the transitivity by chains, the perturbations to obtain periodic orbits and their related results are analyzed in Chapters 3, 4 and 5. In Chapters 6 and 7 the methods dealing with the existence of dominated splitting are presented, while complementarily in Chapter 8 and 9, the author studies the case for which no dominated splitting exists and its relation with homoclinic tangencies and heterodimensional cycles. In Chapter 10, the dynamics far from homoclinic tangencies is presented, concluding that an open and dense set of such \(C^1\) diffeomorphisms are either Morse-Smale or have transversal homoclinic orbits. Finally, in Chapter 11, the author discusses the genericity of topological and uniform hyperbolicity for invariant sets with non-trivial dominated splitting in dimension 2, and also for homoclinic classes with dominated splitting in any dimension, provided it has a contracting codimension-one dominated subbundle.