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Interval exchange transformations and foliations on infinite genus 2-manifolds

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 August 2004

CARLOS GUTIERREZ
Affiliation:
Departamento de Matemática, ICMC/USP - São Carlos, Caixa Postal 668, 13560-970, São Carlos, Brazil (e-mail: gutp@icmc.sc.usp.br)
GILBERT HECTOR
Affiliation:
Institut Girard Desargues, UMR 5028, Université Claude Bernard, 43 Boulevard du 11 Novembre 1918, 69622 Villeurbanne Cedex, France (e-mail: hector@igd.univ-lyon1.fr)
AMÉRICO LÓPEZ
Affiliation:
Departamento de Física e Matemática, FFCLRP/USP - Ribeirão Preto, Av. Bandeirantes 3900, 14040-901 Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil (e-mail: amlopez@ffclrp.usp.br)

Abstract

For each of the following properties, there is an isometric generalized interval exchange transformation (i.e. isometric GIET) having such property: (a) non-trivial recurrence orbits are exceptional and the union of them is a dense set, moreover the intersection of the closure of two such orbits is the union of finite orbits; (b) coexistence of dense orbits and exceptional orbits; (c) existence of a dense sequence of exceptional orbits $\{\mathcal{O}(p_k)\colon k=1,2,\dotsc\}$ such that $\overline{\mathcal{O}(p_1)}\subsetneqq\overline{\mathcal{O}(p_2)}\subsetneqq\dotsb\subsetneqq\overline{\mathcal{O}(p_k)}\subsetneqq\dotsb$.

Moreover, the isometric GIET can be suspended to a smooth foliation, without singularities, on a 2-manifold. The exceptional (respectively dense) orbits of the GIET give rise to exceptional (respectively dense) leaves of the foliation. Finite genus 2-manifolds cannot support orientable foliations with the considered dynamics.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
2004 Cambridge University Press

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