# American Institute of Mathematical Sciences

July  2010, 4(3): 517-548. doi: 10.3934/jmd.2010.4.517

## Nonexpanding attractors: Conjugacy to algebraic models and classification in 3-manifolds

 1 Department of Mathematics, Tufts University, Medford, MA 02155, United States

Received  January 2010 Revised  July 2010 Published  October 2010

We prove a result motivated by Williams's classification of expanding attractors and the Franks--Newhouse Theorem on codimension-$1$ Anosov diffeomorphisms: If $\Lambda$ is a topologically mixing hyperbolic attractor such that $\dim\E^u$|$\Lambda$ = 1, then either $\Lambda$ is expanding or is homeomorphic to a compact abelian group (a toral solenoid). In the latter case, $f$|$\Lambda$ is conjugate to a group automorphism. As a corollary, we obtain a classification of all $2$-dimensional basic sets in $3$-manifolds. Furthermore, we classify all topologically mixing hyperbolic attractors in $3$-manifolds in terms of the classically studied examples, answering a question of Bonatti in [1].
Citation: Aaron W. Brown. Nonexpanding attractors: Conjugacy to algebraic models and classification in 3-manifolds. Journal of Modern Dynamics, 2010, 4 (3) : 517-548. doi: 10.3934/jmd.2010.4.517
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