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According to Thurston’s classification, the set of homotopy classes of homeomorphisms defined on closed orientable surfaces of negative curvature is split into four disjoint subsets \(T_1\), \(T_2\), \(T_3\), and \(T_4\). A homotopy class from each subset is characterized by the existence in it of a homeomorphism (called the Thurston canonical form) that is exactly of one of the following types, respectively: a periodic homeomorphism, a reducible nonperiodic homeomorphism of algebraically finite order, a reducible homeomorphism that is not a homeomorphism of algebraically finite order, or a pseudo-Anosov homeomorphism. Thurston’s canonical forms are not structurally stable diffeomorphisms. Therefore, the problem of constructing the simplest (in a certain sense) structurally stable diffeomorphisms in each homotopy class arises naturally. A. N. Bezdenezhnykh and V. Z. Grines constructed a gradient-like diffeomorphism in each homotopy class from \(T_1\). R. V. Plykin and A. Yu. Zhirov announced a method for constructing a structurally stable diffeomorphism in each homotopy class from \(T_4\). The nonwandering set of this diffeomorphism consists of a finite number of source orbits and a single one-dimensional attractor. In the present paper, we describe the construction of a structurally stable diffeomorphism in each homotopy class from \(T_2\). The constructed representative is a Morse–Smale diffeomorphism with an orientable heteroclinic intersection.
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This work, except for Section 1.2, was supported by the Russian Science Foundation under grant 17-11-01041. The work presented in Section 1.2 was supported by the Foundation for the Advancement of Theoretical Physics and Mathematics “BASIS” (contract no. 19-7-1-15-1).
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Published in Russian in Trudy Matematicheskogo Instituta imeni V.A. Steklova, 2021, Vol. 315, pp. 95–107 https://doi.org/10.4213/tm4234.
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Grines, V.Z., Morozov, A.I. & Pochinka, O.V. Realization of Homeomorphisms of Surfaces of Algebraically Finite Order by Morse–Smale Diffeomorphisms with Orientable Heteroclinic Intersection. Proc. Steklov Inst. Math. 315, 85–97 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0081543821050072
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