On codimension one partially hyperbolic diffeomorphisms (Q6165948)

The author considers \(C^1\)-diffeomorphisms on \(C^\infty\)-closed Riemannian manifolds \(M\) of dimension \(n\). Such diffeomorphisms \(f: M \rightarrow M\) are called codimension-one partially hyperbolic diffeomorphisms if \(f\) or \(f^{-1}\) allows a continuous \(Tf\)-invariant splitting \(TM = E^c \bigoplus E^u\), where \(E^c\) is one-dimensional, and there is a function \(\xi: M \rightarrow (1, \infty)\) such that \(||Tf(v^c)|| < \xi(x) < ||Tf(v^u)||\) for all \(x \in M\) and unit vectors \(v^c \in E^c_x\) and \(v^u \in E^u_x\). The author shows that every codimension-one partially hyperbolic diffeomorphism arises from a linear codimension-one Anosov diffeomorphism of the torus. More specifically, the main result is the following: If \(N\) is a closed Riemannian manifold, and \(f: N \rightarrow N\) is a codimension-one partially hyperbolic diffeomorphism, then \(N\) is homeomorphic to the \(n\)-torus \(\mathbb{T}^n\), the distribution \(E^c\) is locally uniquely integrable, and \(f\) is semiconjugated to a linear codimension one Anosov diffeomorphism \(f_* \in \mathrm{GL}(n, \mathbb{Z})\), the induced linear transformation of \(f\) on \(\pi_1(N)\). This provides a generalization of results in [\textit{J. Franks}, Proc. Symp. Pure Math. 14, 61-- 93 (1970; Zbl 0207.54304); \textit{S.E. Newhouse}, Am. J. Math. 92, 761--770 (1970; Zbl 0204.56901)].