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Graph representations of surface flows

Dynamical Systems 2017-03-17 v1

Abstract

We construct a complete invariant for non-wandering surface flows with finitely many singular points but without locally dense orbits. Precisely, we show that a flow vv with finitely many singular points on a compact connected surface SS is a non-wandering flow without locally dense orbits if and only if S/vexS/v_{\mathrm{ex}} is a non-trivial embedded multi-graph, where the extended orbit space S/vexS/v_{\mathrm{ex}} is the quotient space defined by xyx \sim y if they belong to either a same orbit or a same multi-saddle connection. Moreover, collapsing edges of the non-trivial embedded multi-graph S/vexS/v_{\mathrm{ex}} into singletons, the quotient space (S/vex)/E(S/v_{\mathrm{ex}})/\sim_E is an abstract multi-graph with the Alexandroff topology with respect to the specialization order. Therefore the non-wandering flow vv with finitely many singular points but without locally dense orbits can be reconstruct by finite combinatorial structures, which are the multi-saddle connection diagram and the abstract multi-graph (S/vex)/E(S/v_{\mathrm{ex}})/\sim_E with labels. Moreover, though the set of topological equivalent classes of irrational rotations (i.e. minimal flows) on a torus is uncountable, the set of topological equivalent classes of non-wandering flows with finitely many singular points but without locally dense orbits on compact surfaces is enumerable by combinatorial structures algorithmically.

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@article{arxiv.1703.05495,
  title  = {Graph representations of surface flows},
  author = {Tomoo Yokoyama},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1703.05495},
  year   = {2017}
}
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