2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/167227We consider the group of smooth diffeomorphisms of the circle. We show that any recurrent $f$ (in the sense that $\{f^n\}_{n \in Z}$ is not discrete) is in fact a distortion element (in the sense that its iterates can be written as short compositions involving finitely many smooth diffeomorphisms). Thus rotations are distortion elements.5 pagesDynamical SystemsGeometric Topologytext