Conjugacy of real diffeomorphisms. A survey.
Journal article, 2011

Given a group G, the conjugacy problem in G is the problem of giving an effective procedure for determining whether or not two given elements f, g of G are conjugate, i.e. whether there exists h belonging to G with fh = hg. This paper is about the conjugacy problem in the group Diffeo(I) of all diffeomorphisms of an interval I in R. There is much classical work on the subject, solving the conjugacy problem for special classes of maps. Unfortunately, it is also true that many results and arguments known to the experts are difficult to find in the literature, or simply absent. We try to repair these lacunae, by giving a systematic review, and we also include new results about the conjugacy classification in the general case.

conjugacy

diffeomorphism

Author

Anthony G O'Farrell

Maynooth University

Maria Roginskaya

University of Gothenburg

Chalmers, Mathematical Sciences, Mathematics

St. Petersburg Mathematical Journal

1061-0022 (ISSN) 1547-7371 (eISSN)

Vol. 22 1 1-40

Subject Categories

Mathematical Analysis

DOI

10.1090/S1061-0022-2010-01130-0

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10/7/2017