Tuesday, 23 October 2007

ds.dynamical systems - Topological conjugacy between homeomorphisms and diffeomorphisms

Consider a compact differentiable manifold $M$. We say that $f:Mto M$ and $g: M to M$ are topologically conjugated if there exists $h:Mto M$ a homeomorphism such that $fcirc h= h circ g$. The conjugacy class of a homeomorphism $f$ is the set of all $g$ such that $g$ is topologically conjugated to $f$.



If a homeomorphism $f: Mto M$ has infinite topological entropy (which is an invariant under topological conjugacy), then the conjugacy class of $f$ has no diffeomorphisms.



Is there any other known obstruction for a homeomorphism not to have diffeomorphisms in its conjugacy class? I would guess that yes, but I could not find one.



Is there a restriction on the dimension of the manifold?



(Remark: In dimension one, that is, in the circle, every homeomorphism has a diffeomorphism-of class $C^1$ in its conjugacy class. However, Denjoy counterexamples have no $C^2$ diffeomorphisms in theirs).

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