Sharpness of Denjoy's Theorem
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Denjoy's 1932 theorem says a circle diffeomorphism with irrational rotation number has no wandering interval. Whether it is sharp in regularity: for every concave modulus of continuity weaker than Lipschitz, there is a circle diffeomorphism with irrational rotation number and a wandering interval. The case settles an open problem going back to Herman's 1979 work, which had constructions only for .
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Closes the regularity gap left by Herman's 1979 constructions, which had stood as the boundary of Denjoy's theorem for over forty years.
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The AI use section says the author prompted GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra to construct a Denjoy example for the modulus , which is the corollary settling Herman's case, and used Claude Fable 5 to search for errors.
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