Topological classification of affine operators on unitary and Euclidean spaces (Q616296)

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    Topological classification of affine operators on unitary and Euclidean spaces
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      Topological classification of affine operators on unitary and Euclidean spaces (English)
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      7 January 2011
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      The author studies affine operators on a unitary or Euclidean space \(U\) up to topological conjugacy. If an affine operator has a fixed point, then it is topologically conjugate to its linear part. If not, then it is topologically conjugate to an affine operator \(g\) such that \(U=V\oplus W\), where \(V\) and \(W\) are \(g\)-invariant. One has (in some orthonormal basis of \(V\)) \(g|_V:(x_1,x_2,\dots ,x_n)\mapsto (x_1+1,x_2,\dots ,x_{n-1},\varepsilon x_n)\), where \(\varepsilon =1\) if \(U\) is a unitary space, \(\varepsilon =\pm 1\) if \(U\) is a Euclidean space and \(n\geq 2\) if \(\varepsilon =-1\). The restriction \(g|_W\) is a linear operator which in some orthonormal basis of \(W\) is given by a Jordan nilpotent matrix.
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      affine mappings
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      topological conjugacy
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      canonical forms
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