For a Cantor set X, let Homeo(X) denote the group of all homeo-morphisms of X. The main result of this note is the following theorem. Several corollaries of this result are given. In particular, it is proved that for any aperiodic T ∈ Homeo(X) the set of all homeomorphisms conjugate to T is dense in the set of aperiodic homeomorphisms. 0. Introduction. One of the most useful results in ergodic ...

— Let r > 1 be a real. In this paper, we study piecewise class P Cr circle homeomorphisms with irrational rotation numbers. We give characterizations for such homeomorphisms that are piecewise Cr conjugate to Cr diffeomorphisms. As a consequence, we obtain a criterion of piecewise Cr conjugacy to diophantine rotations. This characterization extends those obtained by Liousse for the PL circle ho...

We show that the group of piecewise-linear homeomorphisms of R having bounded slopes surjects onto the group QI(R) of all quasi-isometries of R. We prove that the following groups can be imbedded in QI(R): the group of compactly supported piecewise-linear homeomorphisms of R, the Richard Thompson group F , and the free group of continuous rank.

Given any positive sequence {cn}n∈N, we construct orientation preserving homeomorphisms f : R → R such that Fix(f) = Per(f) = {0}, 0 is Lyapunov stable and lim sup |i(f ,0)| cm = ∞. We will use our results to discuss and to point out some strong di erences with respect to the computation and behavior of the sequences of the indices of planar homeomorphisms.

We show that the group G∞ of germs at infinity of orientation-preserving homeomorphisms of R admits no action on the line. This gives an example of a left-orderable group of the same cardinality as Homeo+(R) that does not embed in Homeo+(R). As an application of our techniques, we construct a finitely generated group Γ ⊂ G∞ that does not extend to Homeo+(R) and, separately, extend a theorem of ...

We construct an infinite sequence of pseudo-Anosov homeomorphisms without fixed points and leaving invariant a sequence of orientable measured foliations on the same topological surface and the same stratum of the space of Abelian differentials. The existence of such a sequence shows that all pseudo-Anosov homeomorphisms fixing orientable measured foliations cannot be obtained by the Rauzy-Veec...