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Discretization strategies for computing Conley indices and Morse decompositions of flows

Dynamical Systems 2015-11-16 v1

Abstract

Conley indices and Morse decompositions of flows can be found by using algorithms which rigorously analyze discrete dynamical systems. This usually involves integrating a time discretization of the flow using interval arithmetic. We compare the old idea of fixing a time step as a parameters to a time step continuously varying in phase space. We present an example where this second strategy necessarily yields better numerical outputs and prove that our outputs yield a valid Morse decomposition of the given flow.

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@article{arxiv.1511.04426,
  title  = {Discretization strategies for computing Conley indices and Morse decompositions of flows},
  author = {Konstantin Mischaikow and Marian Mrozek and Frank Weilandt},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1511.04426},
  year   = {2015}
}