Volume-hyperbolicity dichotomy conjecture for diffeomorphisms

Let MM be a compact manifold, and let Diff1(M)\operatorname{Diff}^1(M) be the space of C1C^1 diffeomorphisms. A chain-recurrence class is a sink when it is represented by an attracting periodic orbit, and a class is volume hyperbolic when it has the stated dominated splitting with volume expansion on the FF bundle. Volume-hyperbolicity dichotomy conjecture. There exist two disjoint open sets U1,U2\mathcal{U}_1,\mathcal{U}_2 whose union is dense in Diff1(M)\operatorname{Diff}^1(M) and which satisfy: Baire-generic diffeomorphisms in U1\mathcal{U}_1 have infinitely many sinks; and every fU2f\in\mathcal{U}_2 is volume hyperbolic, meaning that each chain-recurrence class Λ\Lambda that is not a sink has a dominated splitting TΛ=EFT_\Lambda=E\oplus F, with FF nontrivial and det(DfFN)>1|\det(Df^N_{|F})|>1 on Λ\Lambda for some N1N\geq1. This is proposed as a characterization of the absence of the Newhouse phenomenon; no resolution is given in the source.

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Sylvain Crovisier, “Dynamics of C^1-diffeomorphisms: global description and prospects for classification”, arXiv:1405.0305 (2014).

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