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A condition that implies full homotopical complexity of orbits

Dynamical Systems 2018-07-06 v3

Abstract

We consider closed orientable surfaces SS of genus g>1g>1 and homeomorphisms f:SSf:S\rightarrow S homotopic to the identity. A set of hypotheses is presented, called fully essential system of curves C\mathscr{C} and it is shown that under these hypotheses, the natural lift of ff to the universal cover of SS (the Poincar\'e disk D),\mathbb{D}), denoted f~,\widetilde{f}, has complicated and rich dynamics. In this context we generalize results that hold for homeomorphisms of the torus homotopic to the identity when their rotation sets contain zero in the interior. In particular, we prove that if ff is a C1+ϵC^{1+\epsilon } diffeomorphism for some ϵ>0\epsilon >0 and π:DS\pi :\mathbb{D}\rightarrow S is the covering map, then there exists a contractible hyperbolic ff-periodic saddle point pSp\in S such that for any p~π1(p),\widetilde{p}\in \pi ^{-1}(p), Wu(p~)Ws(g(p~))W^u(\widetilde{p}) \pitchfork W^s(g(\widetilde{p})) for all deck transformations gDeck(π).g\in Deck(\pi ). By ,\pitchfork, we mean a topologically transverse intersection between the manifolds, see the precise definition in subsection 1.1. We also show that the homological rotation set of such a ff is a compact convex subset of R2g\mathbb{R}^{2g} with maximal dimension and all points in its interior are realized by compact ff-invariant sets, periodic orbits in the rational case, and ff has uniformly bounded displacement with respect to rotation vectors in the boundary of the rotation set. Something that implies, in case ff is area-preserving, that the rotation vector of Lebesgue measure belongs to the interior of the rotation set.

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@article{arxiv.1804.04505,
  title  = {A condition that implies full homotopical complexity of orbits},
  author = {Salvador Addas-Zanata and Bruno de Paula Jacoia},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1804.04505},
  year   = {2018}
}
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