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Rigidity of Hyperbolic Sets on Surfaces
Faculdade de Ciencias, Universidade do Porto 4000 Porto, Portugal aapinto{at}fc.up.pt
Mathematics Institute, University of Warwick Coventry CV4 7AL, United Kingdom dar{at}maths.warwick.ac.uk
Received 30 January 2003. Revision received 14 May 2004.
Given a hyperbolic invariant set of a diffeomorphism on a surface, it is proved that, if the holonomies are sufficiently smooth, then the diffeomorphism on the hyperbolic invariant set is rigid in the sense that it is C1+ conjugate to a hyperbolic affine model.