Geometry & Topology, Vol. 7 (2003)
Paper no. 20, pages 713--756.
Periodic points of Hamiltonian surface diffeomorphisms
John Franks, Michael Handel
Abstract.
The main result of this paper is that every non-trivial Hamiltonian
diffeomorphism of a closed oriented surface of genus at least one has
periodic points of arbitrarily high period. The same result is true
for S^2 provided the diffeomorphism has at least three fixed
points. In addition we show that up to isotopy relative to its fixed
point set, every orientation preserving diffeomorphism F: S --> S of a
closed orientable surface has a normal form. If the fixed point set is
finite this is just the Thurston normal form.
Keywords.
Hamiltonian diffeomorphism, periodic points, geodesic lamination
AMS subject classification.
Primary: 37J10.
Secondary: 37E30.
DOI: 10.2140/gt.2003.7.713
E-print: arXiv:math.DS/0303296
Submitted to GT on 28 March 2003.
(Revised 26 October 2003.)
Paper accepted 29 October 2003.
Paper published 30 October 2003.
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John Franks, Michael Handel
Department of Mathematics, Northwestern University
Evanston,
IL 60208-2730, USA
and
Department of Mathematics, CUNY,
Lehman College
Bronx, NY 10468, USA
Email: john@math.northwestern.edu, handel@g230.lehman.cuny.edu
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