Answering a question of Smale, we prove that the space of C 1 diffeomorphisms of a compact manifold contains a residual subset of diffeomorphisms whose centralizers are trivial.
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Bonatti, Christian; Crovisier, Sylvain; Wilkinson, Amie. The C 1 generic diffeomorphism has trivial centralizer. Publications Mathématiques de l'IHÉS, Volume 109 (2009), pp. 185-244. doi : 10.1007/s10240-009-0021-z. http://archive.numdam.org/articles/10.1007/s10240-009-0021-z/
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