We prove that a locally nilpotent group $G$ of $C^{ 1}$ diffeomorphisms of a compact surface $S$ of non-vanishing Euler characteristic has a finite orbit ${ \mathcal O}$ whose cardinal is bounded by above by a function of the characteristic of Euler of $S$. We focus on the case of negative Euler characteristic $\chi (S)$. Then we can choose ${ \mathcal O}$ so that it consists of global contractible fixed points of thesubgroup $G_0$ of $G$ consisting of isotopic to the identity elements. In particular $G$ has a global contractible fixed point if it consists of isotopic to the identity elements.
Categories: math.DS