Graph representations of surface flows
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 with finitely many singular points on a compact connected surface is a non-wandering flow without locally dense orbits if and only if is a non-trivial embedded multi-graph, where the extended orbit space is the quotient space defined by if they belong to either a same orbit or a same multi-saddle connection. Moreover, collapsing edges of the non-trivial embedded multi-graph into singletons, the quotient space is an abstract multi-graph with the Alexandroff topology with respect to the specialization order. Therefore the non-wandering flow 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 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.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1703.05495,
title = {Graph representations of surface flows},
author = {Tomoo Yokoyama},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1703.05495},
year = {2017}
}