Finiteness of partially hyperbolic attractors with one-dimensional center

Abstract

We prove that the set of diffeomorphisms having at most finitely many attractors contains a dense and open subset of the space of $C^1$ partially hyperbolic diffeomorphisms with one-dimensional center. This is obtained thanks to a robust geometric property of partially hyperbolic laminations that we show to hold after perturbations of the dynamics. This technique also allows to prove that $C^1$-generic diffeomorphisms far from homoclinic tangencies in dimension $3$ either have at most finitely many attractors, or satisfy Newhouse phenomenon.

arXiv comment28 pages, 4 figures. Some corrections in section 5 thanks to comments of D.Yang and J. Zhang. To appear in Ann. Sci. ENS