-stability theorem
Let be a differentiable manifold and let be a diffeomorphism. We say that is --stable, if there is a neighborhood of in the topology of such that for any , is topologically conjugate
to .
-stability theorem. If is Axiom A and satisfies the no-cycles condition, then is --stable.
Remark. The reciprocal of this theorem is also true (the difficult part is showing that -stability implies Axiom A), but it is unknown whether --stability implies Axiom A when . This is known as the -stability conjecture.