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$C^1$ density of stable ergodicity

Dynamical Systems 2017-09-18 v1

Abstract

We prove a C1C^1 version of a conjecture by Pugh and Shub: among partially hyperbolic volume-preserving CrC^r diffeomorphisms, r>1r>1, the stably ergodic ones are C1C^1-dense. To establish these results, we develop new perturbation tools for the C1C^1 topology: linearization of horseshoes while preserving entropy, and creation of "superblenders" from hyperbolic sets with large entropy.

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@article{arxiv.1709.04983,
  title  = {$C^1$ density of stable ergodicity},
  author = {A. Avila and S. Crovisier and A. Wilkinson},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1709.04983},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

58 pages, 11 figures. The long version of "Diffeomorphisms with positive metric entropy" arXiv:1408.4252v3 has been split in two, and this paper corresponds to the second part. The first part is available as the current version of arXiv:1408.4252

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