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arxiv: 1809.07284 · v1 · pith:4M44T5U4new · submitted 2018-09-19 · 🧮 math.DS

A question of Norton-Sullivan in the analytic case

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In 1996, A. Norton and D. Sullivan asked the following question: If $f:\mathbb{T}^2\rightarrow\mathbb{T}^2$ is a diffeomorphism, $h:\mathbb{T}^2\rightarrow\mathbb{T}^2$ is a continuous map homotopic to the identity, and $h f=T_{\rho} h$ where $\rho\in\mathbb{R}^2$ is a totally irrational vector and $T_{\rho}:\mathbb{T}^2\rightarrow\mathbb{T}^2,\, z\mapsto z+\rho$ is a translation, are there natural geometric conditions (e.g. smoothness) on $f$ that force $h$ to be a homeomorphism? In [ J. Wang and Z. Zhang, GAFA 2018 ], the first author and Z. Zhang gave a negative answer to the above question in the $C^{\infty}$ category: In general, not even the infinite smoothness condition can force $h$ to be a homeomorphism. In this article, we give a negative answer in the $C^{\omega}$ category: We construct a real-analytic conservative and minimal totally irrational pseudo-rotation of $\mathbb{T}^2$ that is semi-conjugate to a translation but not conjugate to a translation, which simultaneously answers a question raised in [ J. Wang and Z. Zhang, GAFA 2018 ].

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