We use the theory of barcodes as a new tool for studying dynamics of area-preserving
homeomorphisms. We will show that the barcode of a Hamiltonian diffeomorphism of
a surface depends continuously on the diffeomorphism, and furthermore define
barcodes for Hamiltonian homeomorphisms.
Our main dynamical application concerns the notion of
weakconjugacy, an equivalence relation which arises naturally in connection to
continuous conjugacy invariants of Hamiltonian homeomorphisms. We show that
for a large class of Hamiltonian homeomorphisms with a finite number of
fixed points, the number of fixed points, counted with multiplicity, is a weak
conjugacy invariant. The proof relies, in addition to the theory of barcodes, on
techniques from surface dynamics such as Le Calvez’s theory of transverse
foliations.
In our exposition of barcodes and persistence modules, we present a proof of the
isometry theorem which incorporates Barannikov’s theory of simple Morse
complexes.
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