Monodromy and dynamical systems

DOI10.1016/0040-9383(86)90023-6MaRDI QIDQ578680zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors David Fried

Publication date 1986

Published in Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/0040-9383(86)90023-6

zbMATH Keywords

algebraically finite surface transformationsMonodromy TheoremMorse-Smale flowNielsen's theorem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Étale and other Grothendieck topologies and (co)homologies (14F20) Morse-Smale systems (37D15)

Review text

The main purpose of this paper is to give a new proof of the Monodromy Theorem [see, e.g., \textit{A. Grothendieck}, Groupes de monodromie en géométrie algébrique, Lect. Notes Math. 288, 313-523 (1972; Zbl 0248.14006)], in a way which provides considerable new insights and leads to various generalizations of known results on algebraically finite (AF) surface transformations. First, an AF-notion is introduced for a diffeomorphism and an isotopy class of diffeomorphisms on a compact smooth manifold. It is shown that such a diffeomorphism f induces a quasiunipotent action \(f^*\) on cohomology, which is a generalization of Nielsen's theorem on AF surface transformations. The polynomial growth of forms under f is used to bound the size of the Jordan blocks of \(f^*\), thus leading to a generalization of known estimates for the Jordan blocks of the monodromy action and a new result for AF surface transformations. Further extensions are given to the case of cohomology with twisted coefficients. The monodromy theorem is proved using essentially an approximation of an AF-system by a Morse-Smale one, combined with Shub's result that the cohomology action of a Morse-Smale diffeomorphism is quasiunipotent. As a by-product of the present approach, it follows that Nielsen's theorem has no converse. It is also shown that the sequence of Lefschetz numbers of an AF diffeomorphism has a simple geometric description. Finally, the author computes Reidemeister torsion from the closed orbits of an AF and Morse-Smale flow.

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