Herman's dominated-splitting conjecture for conservative diffeomorphisms

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Let MM be a compact manifold and let f∈Diff⁡m1(M)f\in \operatorname{Diff}^1_m(M) be a conservative diffeomorphism. Suppose there is a neighborhood U\mathcal{U} of ff in Diff⁡m1(M)\operatorname{Diff}^1_m(M) such that, for every g∈Ug\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.

References

Primary source

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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