Fixed points of nilpotent actions on surfaces of negative Euler characteristic

Abstract: We prove that a locally nilpotent group

G

of

C^{1}

diffeomorphisms of a compact surface

S

of non-vanishing Euler characteristic has a finite orbit

m a t h c a l O

whose cardinal is bounded by above by a function of the characteristic of Euler of

S

. We focus on the case of negative Euler characteristic

c h i (S)

. Then we can choose

m a t h c a l O

so that it consists of global contractible fixed points of thesubgroup

G_{0}

of

G

consisting of isotopic to the identity elements. In particular

G

has a global contractible fixed point if it consists of isotopic to the identity elements.

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