The embedding flows of $C^\infty$ hyperbolic diffeomorphisms

Abstract

In [{\it American J. Mathematics}, 124(2002), 107--127] we proved that for a germ of $C^\infty$ hyperbolic diffeomorphisms $F(x)=Ax+f(x)$ in $(\mathbb R^n,0)$, if $A$ has a real logarithm with its eigenvalues weakly nonresonant, then $F(x)$ can be embedded in a $C^\infty$ autonomous differential system. Its proof was very complicated, which involved the existence of embedding periodic vector field of $F(x)$ and the extension of the Floquet's theory to nonlinear $C^\infty$ periodic differential systems. In this paper we shall provide a simple and direct proof to this last result. Next we shall show that the weakly nonresonant condition in the last result on the real logarithm of $A$ is necessary for some $C^\infty$ diffeomorphisms $F(x)=Ax+f(x)$ to have $C^\infty$ embedding flows. Finally we shall prove that a germ of $C^\infty$ hyperbolic diffeomorphisms $F(x)=Ax+f(x)$ with $f(x)=O(|x|^2)$ in $(\mathbb R^2,0)$ has a $C^\infty$ embedding flow if and only if either $A$ has no negative eigenvalues or $A$ has two equal negative eigenvalues and it can be diagonalizable.