Pugh’s general density theorem
Let be a compact smooth manifold. There is a residual subset of in which every element satisfies .In other words: Generically, the set of periodic points of a diffeomorphism is dense in its nonwandering set.
Here, denotes the set of all difeomorphisms from toitself, endowed with the (strong) topology.
References
- 1 Pugh, C., An improved closing lemma
and a general density theorem, Amer. J. Math. 89 (1967).