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By Smale's classical result, the nonwandering set of a hyperbolic diffeomorphism \(\varphi\) of a compact manifold decomposes into finitely many disjoint basic sets, each given by the homoclinic class of a periodic point and enjoying properties such as being compact, invariant, transitive and isolated. In the nonhyperbolic case, the role of a basic set is played by a robustly transitive set \(\Lambda_\varphi(U)\), i.e., a maximal \(\varphi\)-invariant set in an open set \(U\), rigid with respect to perturbation of \(\varphi\), and having transitive perturbations. The notion of hyperbolic splitting of a restricted tangent bundle has to be weakened to dominated splitting. The present unavoidably technical work mainly investigates phenomena, structurally stable under perturbation of a diffeomorphism, related to the indices of periodic points and the existence of a dominated splitting, given the existence of a robustly transitive set with certain properties. For the entire collection see [Zbl 1029.00027].