Abstract. We construct a Teichmüller space for the C 1+ -conjugacy classes of hyperbolic dynamical systems on surfaces. After introducing the notion of an HR structure which associates an affine structure with each of the stable and unstable laminations, we show that there is a one-to-one correspondence between these HR structures and the C 1+ -conjugacy classes. As part of the proof we construct a canonical representative dynamical system for each HR structure. This has the smoothest holonomies of any representative of the corresponding C 1+ -conjugacy class. Finally, we introduce solenoid functions and show that they provide a good Teichmüller space.
IntroductionIn this paper we study the flexibility of smooth hyperbolic dynamics on surfaces. By the flexibility of a given topological model of hyperbolic dynamics we mean the extent of different smooth realizations of this model. Thus a typical result provides a Teichmüller space or a moduli space to parametrize these realizations. In this paper we will construct Teichmüller spaces for hyperbolic sets of surface diffeomorphisms with one-dimensional stable and unstable manifolds including Anosov diffeomorphisms, attractors and Smale horseshoes. In a later paper we extend these results to pseudo-Anosov systems.To be effective it is important that these Teichmüller spaces should be easily characterized. For example, for Anosov diffeomorphisms of the torus that are either C ∞ or C 2 and preserve a smooth invariant measure, the eigenvalue spectrum is known to be a complete invariant of smooth conjugacy [4,5]. However, it is not clear which eigenvalue spectra are realized by such systems. Thus these do not make up a good Teichmüller space. The Teichmüller spaces that we construct do not suffer from this and they usually consist of easily characterized Hölder functions. Moreover, for hyperbolic systems on surfaces other than Anosov systems not only are the eigenvalue spectra difficult to characterize, they are also only a complete invariant of Lipschitz conjugacy.