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The C1 generic diffeomorphism has trivial centralizer

Dynamical Systems 2008-12-18 v1

Abstract

Answering a question of Smale, we prove that the space of C1 diffeomorphisms of a compact manifold contains a residual subset of diffeomorphisms whose centralizers are trivial.

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@article{arxiv.0804.1416,
  title  = {The C1 generic diffeomorphism has trivial centralizer},
  author = {Christian Bonatti and Sylvain Crovisier and Amie Wilkinson},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0804.1416},
  year   = {2008}
}
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