2505.09491
Anti-classification results for conjugacy of diffeomorphisms on manifolds
Bo Peng
correctmedium confidence
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- Strong Field
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- Sep 28, 2025, 12:56 AM
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Audit review
The paper proves the target statement directly by a concrete Borel reduction [0,1]^ω/c0 ≤B topological conjugacy of C∞ diffeomorphisms on any manifold with dimension ≥ 2 (Theorem 5.1), yielding Theorem 1.1 that the conjugacy relation is not classifiable by countable structures; see the statement of Theorem 1.1 and the construction with auxiliary functions ψ and m, plus the turbulence/bireducibility facts used for [0,1]^ω/c0 . By contrast, the model’s argument hinges on a claimed Denjoy–Rees–type C∞, Borel-uniform realization T ↦ Φ(T) with canonical markers that reduces minimal Cantor-systems conjugacy to diffeomorphism conjugacy; this construction is neither presented nor justified in the paper and the cited 2025 preprint here does not supply that method (it uses the c0-coding construction instead). Hence the paper’s result is correct, while the model’s claimed proof path is unsupported by the paper.
Referee report (LaTeX)
\textbf{Recommendation:} minor revisions \textbf{Journal Tier:} strong field \textbf{Justification:} The paper gives a clean and effective proof that conjugacy of C∞ diffeomorphisms on manifolds of dimension ≥ 2 is not classifiable by countable structures, answering a question of Foreman and Gorodetski. The method—reducing [0,1]\^ω/c0 via an explicit geometric coding—avoids heavy machinery and should be widely understandable. Minor clarifications (e.g., a brief remark about Borel measurability of the assignment α ↦ fα) would strengthen the exposition.