there are two f−invariant foliations denoted by Fcu
fand Fcs
ftangent respectively to Ecu
f:=Ec
f⊕Eu
f
and Ecs
f:=Es
f⊕Ec
f. It is clear that if fis dynamically coherent, then Fc
f:=Fcu
fTFcs
fis a f−invariant
foliation tangent to Ec
f. In particular, for the case of ||D f vc|| < 1 for all unit vc∈Ec
f, we also call Ec
fthe
weak stable bundle,Es
fthe strong stable bundle and the corresponding foliation Fs
fis called strong
stable foliation.
In [9], Gogolev and Guysinsky considered the local rigidity of an Anosov automorphism Lon T3
with partially hyperbolic splitting. For any two partially hyperbolic Anosov diffeomorphisms fand
gon T3which are conjugate via h, we say fand ghave the same center periodic data, if their cor-
responding, by h, periodic points have the same Lyapunov exponents on center bundles. The main
technical lemma in [9] is that for Lwith two-dimensional stable bundle, if its C1-perturbations fand
ghave the same center periodic data, then their conjugacy h preserves the strong stable foliation, i.e.
h¡Fs
f(x)¢=Fs
g¡h(x)¢for all x∈T3. In this paper, we show the converse of this property.
Theorem 1.2. Let f ,g:T3→T3be two C1+α-smooth partially hyperbolic Anosov diffeomorphisms
whose center bundles are weak stable. Assume that f is conjugate to g via a homeomorphism h. If h
preserves the strong stable foliations, then f and g have the same center periodic data.
An interesting corollary of Theorem 1.2 is that the topological conjugacy preserving the strong
stable foliation implies it is smooth along the center (weak stable) foliation. Here the conjugacy being
C1-smooth along the center foliation is defined as the derivative along each center leaf being contin-
uous with respect to the topology of the whole manifold. Note that in our case, the center bundle is
integrable and the conjugacy preserves the center foliation [21], also see Remark 3.2.
Corollary 1.3. Let f ,g:T3→T3be two C 1+α-smooth partially hyperbolic Anosov diffeomorphisms
whose center bundles are weak stable. Assume that f is conjugate to g via a homeomorphism h. Then
h preserves the strong stable foliation, if and only if, h is C 1along the center foliation.
Remark 1.4.One can get Corollary 1.3 from Theorem 1.2 and [9, Lemma 5 and Lemma 6] which state
that the same center periodic data of fand gimplies that his smooth along the center foliation and
hpreserves the strong stable foliation. We mention that the assumption of local perturbation in [9]
is just for getting that the center bundle of fis integrable and preserved by h. As mentioned above,
we now have these two properties. For the inverse conclusion, for any periodic point pwith period n,
since his smooth along the center foliation, we can take the directional derivative of fn=h−1◦gn◦h
in the direction of Ec, we can get that λc(p,f)=λc(h(p), g). From the conclusion of [9], we can know
that hpreserves the strong stable foliation.
We are also curious about the higher-dimensional case of Theorem 1.2 and Corollary 1.3, since
Gogolev extended the result of local rigidity in [9] to the higher-dimensional case [8]. For convenience,
we state this question in Section 3, see Question 3.5.
In this paper, we also consider partially hyperbolic diffeomorphisms on general closed Rieman-
nian manifolds with integrable one-dimensional center bundles and with accessibility. We call a par-
tially hyperbolic diffeomorphism f:M→Mis accessible, if any two points on Mcan be connected
by curves each of which is tangent to Es
for Eu
f. It is well known that accessibility is Cr-dense and
C1-open among Cr(r≥1) partially hyperbolic diffeomorphisms with one-dimensional center bun-
dles [1–3, 14].
Let f,g:M→Mbe two partially hyperbolic diffeomorphisms and dynamically coherent. We call
fis fully conjugate to g, if there exists a homeomorphsim h:M→Msuch that fis conjugate to gvia
hand hpreserves the stable foliations, unstable foliations and center foliations, respectively, i.e.,
h¡Fσ
f(x)¢=Fσ
g¡h(x)¢,∀x∈Mand σ=s,c,u.
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