Structure of Brouwer homeomorphismus

DOI10.2140/GT.2005.9.1689MaRDI QIDQ2388879zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Publication date 20 September 2005

Published in Geometry \& Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0403406, https://eudml.org/doc/125993, http://www.emis.de/journals/UW/gt/GTVol9/paper39.abs.html

zbMATH Keywords

Brouwer homeomorphism Reeb component translation domain

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Index theory for dynamical systems, Morse-Conley indices (37B30) Dynamical systems involving homeomorphisms and diffeomorphisms of planes and surfaces (37E30)

Abstract: For every Brouwer (ie planar, fixed point free, orientation preserving) homeomorphism h there exists a covering of the plane by translation domains, invariant simply-connected open subsets on which h is conjugate to an affine translation. We introduce a distance d_h on the plane that counts the minimal number of translation domains connecting a pair of points. This allows us to describe a combinatorial conjugacy invariant, and to show the existence of a finite family of generalised Reeb components separating any two points x,y such that d_h(x,y)>1. R'esum'e Tout homeomorphisme de Brouwer s'obtient en recollant des domaines de translation (ouverts simplement connexes, invariants, en restriction auxquels la dynamique est conjuguee a une translation). On introduit une distance d_h sur le plan qui compte le nombre minimal de domaines de translation dont la reunion connecte deux points. Ceci nous permet de decrire un invariant combinatoire de conjugaison, qui decrit tres grossierement la maniere dont les domaines de translation se recollent. On montre egalement l'existence de structures dynamiques qui generalisent la presence de composantes de Reeb dans les feuilletages non triviaux du plan.

Review text

A Brouwer homeomorphism is a homeomorphism of the plane that preserves the orientation and with no fixed-points. Given a Brouwer homeomorphism \(h\), a subset \(U\) of the plane is said to be a translation domain (for \(h\)) if \(U\) is an open, connected and simply connected set which is invariant for \(h\) and such that the restriction of \(h\) to \(U\) is conjugated to the translation \(\tau \) of the plane defined by the requirement \(\tau (x,y)\) be \((x+1,y)\). A result of Brouwer states that every point of the plane belongs to a translation domain. The author presents the following result: for every Brouwer homomorphism \(h\), there exists a covering of the plane by translation domains. Given a Brouwer homomorphism \(h\), the author defines a distance \(d_{h}\), on the plane linked to \(h\), named \(h\)-distance or translation distance of \(h\), in the following way: if \(x\) and \(y\) are two points of the plane, \(d_{h}(x,y)\) is the smallest integer \(k\) such that there are translation domains \(O_{1}, \dots ,O_{k}\) such that \(\bigcup_{n=1}^{k}O_{n}\) is a connected set containing both \(x\) and \(y\). By means of the distance \(d_{h}\) a combinatorial conjugacy is presented and the following result is proved: if \(d_{h}(x,y)>1\), there is a finite family of generalized Reeb components separating \(x\) and \(y\).

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