{ "id": "1709.04983", "version": "v1", "published": "2017-09-14T21:29:51.000Z", "updated": "2017-09-14T21:29:51.000Z", "title": "$C^1$ density of stable ergodicity", "authors": [ "A. Avila", "S. Crovisier", "A. Wilkinson" ], "comment": "58 pages, 11 figures. The long version of \"Diffeomorphisms with positive metric entropy\" arXiv:1408.4252v3 has been split in two, and this paper corresponds to the second part. The first part is available as the current version of arXiv:1408.4252", "categories": [ "math.DS" ], "abstract": "We prove a $C^1$ version of a conjecture by Pugh and Shub: among partially hyperbolic volume-preserving $C^r$ diffeomorphisms, $r>1$, the stably ergodic ones are $C^1$-dense. To establish these results, we develop new perturbation tools for the $C^1$ topology: linearization of horseshoes while preserving entropy, and creation of \"superblenders\" from hyperbolic sets with large entropy.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2017-09-14T21:29:51.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "keywords": [ "stable ergodicity", "large entropy", "hyperbolic sets", "perturbation tools", "linearization" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 58, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable" } } }