The C 1 generic diffeomorphism has trivial centralizer
Bonatti, Christian ; Crovisier, Sylvain ; Wilkinson, Amie
Publications Mathématiques de l'IHÉS, Tome 110 (2009), p. 185-244 / Harvested from Numdam
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Answering a question of Smale, we prove that the space of C 1 diffeomorphisms of a compact manifold contains a residual subset of diffeomorphisms whose centralizers are trivial.

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Bonatti, Christian; Crovisier, Sylvain; Wilkinson, Amie. The C 1 generic diffeomorphism has trivial centralizer. Publications Mathématiques de l'IHÉS, Tome 110 (2009) pp. 185-244. doi : 10.1007/s10240-009-0021-z. http://gdmltest.u-ga.fr/item/PMIHES_2009__109__185_0/

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