Topological obstructions for robustly transitive endomorphisms on surfaces

Abstract

We address the problem of necessary conditions and topological obstructions for the existence of robustly transitive maps on surfaces. Concretely, we show that partial hyperbolicity is a necessary condition in order to have $C^1$ robustly transitive endomorphisms with critical points on surfaces, and the only surfaces that admits robustly transitive maps are either the torus or the klein bottle. Moreover, we show that every robustly transitive endomorphism is homotopic to a linear map having at least one eigenvalue with modulus larger than one.