Geometric implications of linearizability (Q5935518)

A linearization in a neighbourhood of a hyperbolic fixed point of a diffeomorphism or a flow is a local change of variable conjugating it to a linear system. It was known that hyperbolicity is enough to guarantee \(C^0\) linearizability, and there has been much work about the smooth linearizability question: How close can the smoothness of the linearization be to the smoothness of the original system? Continuing with this line of research, the author characterizes the \(C^r\) linearizability of a \(C^r\) diffeomorphism or flow by the existence of certain invariant foliations, yielding linearizations without loss of smoothness in some special cases. Similar results are also proved for partial linearizability.