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Partially hyperbolic diffeomorphisms and Lagrangian contact structures

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 November 2021

MARTIN MION-MOUTON*
Affiliation:
IRMA, 7 rue René Descartes, 67084Strasbourg, France

Abstract

In this paper, we classify the three-dimensional partially hyperbolic diffeomorphisms whose stable, unstable, and central distributions $E^s$ , $E^u$ , and $E^c$ are smooth, such that $E^s\oplus E^u$ is a contact distribution, and whose non-wandering set equals the whole manifold. We prove that up to a finite quotient or a finite power, they are smoothly conjugated either to a time-map of an algebraic contact-Anosov flow, or to an affine partially hyperbolic automorphism of a nil- ${\mathrm {Heis}}{(3)}$ -manifold. The rigid geometric structure induced by the invariant distributions plays a fundamental part in the proof.

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© The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press

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