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Regularity of time-preserving conjugacies for contact Anosov flows with C1-Anosov splitting

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 September 2008

Ursula Hamenstädt
Affiliation:
Mathematisches Institut der Universität Bonn, Beringstrasse 1, 5300 Bonn, Germany

Abstract

Let (resp. ) be a smooth contact flow on a compact manifold V1 (resp.) V2 with Anosov splitting of class C1. We show that every time-preserving conjugacy Λ:(V1, )→( V2, ) is necessarily of class C2.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1993

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