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Sharpness of Denjoy's Theorem

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Precise statement

Denjoy's 1932 theorem says a $C^{1+\mathrm{bv}}$ circle diffeomorphism with irrational rotation number has no wandering interval. Whether it is sharp in regularity: for every concave modulus of continuity $\omega$ weaker than Lipschitz, there is a $C^{1+\omega}$ circle diffeomorphism with irrational rotation number and a wandering interval. The case $\omega(t) = t\log(1/t)$ settles an open problem going back to Herman's 1979 work, which had constructions only for $\omega(t) = t\log(1/t)^{1+\varepsilon}$.

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What AI did

GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra; Claude Fable 5

The AI use section says the author prompted GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra to construct a Denjoy example for the modulus $t\log(1/t)$, which is the corollary settling Herman's case, and used Claude Fable 5 to search for errors.

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Verification boundary

unreviewed

arXiv preprint, not yet peer-reviewed.

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Timeline

  1. arXiv:2608.02380 - On the sharpness of Denjoy's theorem

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Known method families

construction (source-reported)

Source-reported tools: construction.

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