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1998 Spring Topology and Dynamics Conference
March 12-14, 1998
George Mason University
Fairfax, VA, USA

Organizers
John Kulesza, Kathy Alligood, Ronnie Levy

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Exponential growth of number of periodic orbits is not generic
by
V. Kaloshin
Princeton University

documentclassarticle Exponential Growth of number of periodic orbits is not topologically generic

Exponential Growth of number of periodic orbits is not topologically generic

Consider the space of Ck diffeomorphisms of a compact manifold M denoted by Dk(M),  k >= 2. Call a diffeomorphism f A-M diffeomorphism if number of periodic points growth with at most exponential speed in n, i.e. for some C > 0 and all n
pn(f)=# {x in M:fn(x)=x } < exp (Cn).
In 1965 Artin & Mazur showed that the set of A-M diffeomorphisms is dense in Dk(M). The first result is that the set of A-M diffeomorphisms is not residual in Dk(M) with the uniform Ck-topology, i.e. this set is not topologically generic. This theorem has been conjectured by J.Mather. Moreover, we proved that there is an open set N in the space Dk(M) such that N contains a residual set with arbitrary ahead given growth of number of periodic orbits. Examples of particular dynamical systems with arbitrary quick growth of number of periodic orbits have been presented by Rozales-Gonsalez. But, a residual set in the segment [0, 1] can have measure zero. Let Bn be the unit ball. So, the second result (joint with B.Hunt) says that a generic n-parameter family of C\infty diffeomorphisms {f\epsilon }\epsilon in Bn with not extremely fast growing derivatives has the following property: for almost all \epsilon in Bn number of periodic points of f\epsilon growing not extremety fast meaning that for some C=C(\epsilon) > 0
pn(f\epsilon) < exp (C n3 logn).
Some related properties of generic diffeomorphisms will be also discussed.

Date received: December 16, 1997


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