Herman's dominated-splitting conjecture for conservative diffeomorphisms

Let MM be a compact manifold and let fDiffm1(M)f\in \operatorname{Diff}^1_m(M) be a conservative diffeomorphism. Suppose there is a neighborhood U\mathcal{U} of ff in Diffm1(M)\operatorname{Diff}^1_m(M) such that, for every gUg\in\mathcal{U} and every periodic orbit xx of gg, the matrix associated with the periodic orbit has at least one eigenvalue whose modulus differs from one. A dominated splitting is an invariant splitting of the tangent bundle satisfying the usual domination inequality.

Herman's conjecture. Under these assumptions, ff admits a dominated splitting.

The statement is presented as Herman's question relating robust exclusion of fully elliptic periodic orbits to dominated splittings. The supplied text gives no resolution status.

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Chao Liang and Yun Yang, “The C^1 density of nonuniform hyperbolicity in C^ r conservative diffeomorphisms”, arXiv:1508.06714 (2015).

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