Necessary conditions for stability of diffeomorphisms

Abstract

S. Smale has recently given sufficient conditions for a diffeomorphism to be <inline-formula content-type="math/mathml"> <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="normal upper Omega"> <mml:semantics> <mml:mi mathvariant="normal"> Ω </mml:mi> <mml:annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\Omega</mml:annotation> </mml:semantics> </mml:math> </inline-formula> -stable and conjectured the converse of his theorem. The purpose of this paper is to give some limited results in the direction of that converse. We prove that an <inline-formula content-type="math/mathml"> <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="normal upper Omega"> <mml:semantics> <mml:mi mathvariant="normal"> Ω </mml:mi> <mml:annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\Omega</mml:annotation> </mml:semantics> </mml:math> </inline-formula> -stable diffeomorphism <inline-formula content-type="math/mathml"> <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="f"> <mml:semantics> <mml:mi>f</mml:mi> <mml:annotation encoding="application/x-tex">f</mml:annotation> </mml:semantics> </mml:math> </inline-formula> has only hyperbolic periodic points and moreover that if <inline-formula content-type="math/mathml"> <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="p"> <mml:semantics> <mml:mi>p</mml:mi> <mml:annotation encoding="application/x-tex">p</mml:annotation> </mml:semantics> </mml:math> </inline-formula> is a periodic point of period <inline-formula content-type="math/mathml"> <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="k"> <mml:semantics> <mml:mi>k</mml:mi> <mml:annotation encoding="application/x-tex">k</mml:annotation> </mml:semantics> </mml:math> </inline-formula> then the <inline-formula content-type="math/mathml"> <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="k"> <mml:semantics> <mml:mi>k</mml:mi> <mml:annotation encoding="application/x-tex">k</mml:annotation> </mml:semantics> </mml:math> </inline-formula> th roots of the eigenvalues of <inline-formula content-type="math/mathml"> <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="d f Subscript p Superscript k"> <mml:semantics> <mml:mrow> <mml:mi>d</mml:mi> <mml:msubsup> <mml:mi>f</mml:mi> <mml:mi>p</mml:mi> <mml:mi>k</mml:mi> </mml:msubsup> </mml:mrow> <mml:annotation encoding="application/x-tex">df_p^k</mml:annotation> </mml:semantics> </mml:math> </inline-formula> are bounded away from the unit circle. Other results concern the necessity of transversal intersection of stable and unstable manifolds for an <inline-formula content-type="math/mathml"> <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="normal upper Omega"> <mml:semantics> <mml:mi mathvariant="normal"> Ω </mml:mi> <mml:annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\Omega</mml:annotation> </mml:semantics> </mml:math> </inline-formula> -stable diffeomorphism.