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A H\"older continuous vector field tangent to many foliations

Dynamical Systems 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

We construct an example of a H\"older continuous vector field on the plane which is tangent to all foliations in a continuous family of pairwise distinct C1C^1 foliations. Given any 1r<,1 \le r <\infty, the construction can be done in such a way that each leaf of each foliation is the graph of a CrC^r function from R\R to R.\R. We also show the existence of a continuous vector field XX on R2\R^2 and two foliations F\cal{F} and G\cal{G} on R2\R^2 each tangent to XX with a dense subset E\cal E of R2\R^2 such that at every point xEx\in \cal E the leaves FxF_x and GxG_x of the foliation F\cal{F} and G\cal{G} through xx are topologically transverse.

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@article{arxiv.math/0303291,
  title  = {A H\"older continuous vector field tangent to many foliations},
  author = {Christian Bonatti and John Franks},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0303291},
  year   = {2007}
}
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