On Non-contractible Periodic Orbits and Bounded Deviations

DOI10.1088/1361-6544/AD4948MaRDI QIDQ6388290zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Xiaochuan Liu, Fabio Armando Tal

Publication date 14 January 2022

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6544/AD4948

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamical systems involving homeomorphisms and diffeomorphisms of planes and surfaces (37E30) Rotation numbers and vectors (37E45)

Abstract: We present a dichotomy for surface homeomorphisms in the isotopy class of the identity. We show that, in the absence of a degenerate fixed point set, either there exists a uniform bound on the diameter of orbits of non-wandering points for the lifted dynamics in the universal covering space, or the map has non-contractible periodic points. We then use this new tool to characterize the dynamics of area preserving homeomorphisms of the torus without non-contractible periodic points, showing that if the fixed point set is non-degenerate, then either the lifted dynamics is uniformly bounded, or the lifted map has a single strong irrational dynamical direction.

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