Pugh–Shub accessibility conjecture for partially hyperbolic diffeomorphisms

Let MM be a closed Riemannian manifold, and let f:MMf:M\to M be a partially hyperbolic diffeomorphism, meaning that TMTM admits a DfDf-invariant splitting

TM=EsEcEu,TM=E^s\oplus E^c\oplus E^u,

where EsE^s is uniformly contracting, EuE^u is uniformly expanding, and EcE^c is dominated by the other two subbundles. The diffeomorphism ff is accessible if any two points of MM can be joined by a piecewise smooth path tangent to EsE^s or EuE^u. Pugh–Shub accessibility conjecture. Accessibility holds for an open and dense subset of partially hyperbolic diffeomorphisms. This is a central conjecture in partially hyperbolic dynamics and was proposed as part of the Stable Ergodicity Conjecture; the supplied text does not state whether it has been resolved.

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Primary source

Ziqiang Feng and Raúl Ures, “Accessibility and central integrability in the absence of periodic points”, arXiv:2511.00853 (2025).

Additional references

14 papers in this index state this conjecture (2004–2025). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2502.18146, arXiv:2112.12762, arXiv:2011.14257, arXiv:1603.00053, arXiv:1507.03556, arXiv:1501.00932, arXiv:1409.8002, arXiv:1208.5660, arXiv:1112.5690, arXiv:1004.5345, arXiv:0907.4539, arXiv:0804.0167, and 1 more.

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