Birkhoff's sphere conjecture for real-analytic area-preserving diffeomorphisms
Birkhoff's sphere conjecture for real-analytic area-preserving diffeomorphisms
Let be an orientation-preserving, real-analytic, Lebesgue measure-preserving diffeomorphism of the 2-sphere with only two periodic points, which are necessarily fixed. Birkhoff's sphere conjecture. Then is conjugate to a rigid irrational rotation. This conjecture concerns the rigidity of area-preserving pseudo-rotations of the sphere and remains unsolved; it asks whether the absence of periodic orbits beyond the two fixed points forces analytic conjugacy to a rigid rotation.
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Primary source
Jian Wang and Zhiyuan Zhang, “The rigidity of pseudo-rotations on the two-torus and a question of Norton-Sullivan”, arXiv:1708.02529 (2017).
Additional references
2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2005–2017). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:math/0506041.
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