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Morse-Smale systems without heteroclinic submanifolds on codimension one separatrices

Dynamical Systems 2018-04-20 v1

Abstract

We study a topological structure of a closed nn-manifold MnM^n (n3n\geq 3) which admits a Morse-Smale diffeomorphism such that codimension one separatrices of saddles periodic points have no heteroclinic intersections different from heteroclinic points. Also we consider gradient like flow on MnM^n such that codimension one separatices of saddle singularities have no intersection at all. We show that MnM^n is either an nn-sphere SnS^n, or the connected sum of a finite number of copies of Sn1S1S^{n-1}\otimes S^1 and a finite number of special manifolds NinN^n_i admitting polar Morse-Smale systems. Moreover, if some NinN^n_i contains a single saddle, then NinN^n_i is projective-like (in particular, n{4,8,16}n\in\{4,8,16\}, and NinN^n_i is a simply-connected and orientable manifold). Given input dynamical data, one constructs a supporting manifold MnM^n. We give a formula relating the number of sinks, sources and saddle periodic points to the connected sum for MnM^n. As a consequence, we obtain conditions for the existence of heteroclinic intersections for Morse-Smale diffeomorphisms and a periodic trajectory for Morse-Smale flows.

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@article{arxiv.1804.07224,
  title  = {Morse-Smale systems without heteroclinic submanifolds on codimension one separatrices},
  author = {Viacheslav Z. Grines and Vladislav S. Medvedev and Evgeny V. Zhuzhoma},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1804.07224},
  year   = {2018}
}
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