Rigidity of some abelian-by-cyclic solvable group actions on T^N

DOI10.1007/S00220-019-03658-3MaRDI QIDQ2184743zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Amie Wilkinson, Jinxin Xue

Publication date 29 May 2020

Published in Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.01003

zbMATH Keywords

affine actionscircle diffeomorphismsDiophantine conditionselliptic dynamicshyperbolic dynamicsKAM theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Topological and differentiable equivalence, conjugacy, moduli, classification of dynamical systems (37C15) Dynamics induced by group actions other than (mathbb{Z}) and (mathbb{R}), and (mathbb{C}) (37C85) Dynamical systems involving maps of the circle (37E10) Perturbations of finite-dimensional Hamiltonian systems, normal forms, small divisors, KAM theory, Arnol'd diffusion (37J40) Transformation groups and semigroups (topological aspects) (54H15)

Abstract: In this paper, we study a natural class of groups that act as affine transformations of $mathbb{T}^N$. We investigate whether these solvable, "abelian-by-cyclic," groups can act smoothly and nonaffinely on $mathbb{T}^N$ while remaining homotopic to the affine actions. In the affine actions, elliptic and hyperbolic dynamics coexist, forcing a priori complicated dynamics in nonaffine perturbations. We first show, using the KAM method, that any small and sufficiently smooth perturbation of such an affine action can be conjugated smoothly to an affine action, provided certain Diophantine conditions on the action are met. In dimension two, under natural dynamical hypotheses, we get a complete classification of such actions; namely, any such group action by $C^r$ diffeomorphims can be conjugated to the affine action by $C^{r-epsilon}$ conjugacy. Next, we show that in any dimension, $C^1$ small perturbations can be conjugated to an affine action via $C^{1+epsilon}$ conjugacy. The method is a generalization of the Herman theory for circle diffeomorphisms to higher dimensions in the presence of a foliation structure provided by the hyperbolic dynamics.

Review text

The authors study a natural class of groups that act as affine transformations of the torus \(\mathbb{T}^N\). They investigate whether these groups can act smoothly and nonaffinely on \(\mathbb{T}^N\) while remaining homotopic to the affine actions. In the case of affine actions, elliptic and hyperbolic dynamics coexist, forcing complicated dynamics in nonaffine perturbations. Using KAM theory, the authors show that any small and sufficiently smooth perturbation of such an affine action can be conjugated smoothly to an affine action, provided certain Diophantine conditions on the action are fulfilled. Under natural dynamical hypotheses, they get a complete classification of such actions in dimension two. Specifically, any such group action by \(C^r\)-diffeomorphisms can be conjugated to the affine action by \(C^{r-\varepsilon}\)-conjugacy. Finally, the authors show that in any dimension, \(C^1\)-small perturbations can be conjugated to an affine action via \(C^{1-\varepsilon}\)-conjugacy.

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