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On robust expansiveness for sectional hyperbolic attracting sets

Dynamical Systems 2025-03-24 v4

Abstract

We prove that sectional-hyperbolic attracting sets for C1C^1 vector fields are robustly expansive (under an open technical condition of strong dissipative for higher codimensional cases). This extends known results of expansiveness for singular-hyperbolic attractors in 33-flows even in this low dimensional setting. We deduce some converse results taking advantage of recent progress in the study of star vector fields: a robustly transitive attractor is sectional-hyperbolic if, and only if, it is robustly expansive. In a low dimensional setting, we show that an attracting set of a 33-flow is singular-hyperbolic if, and only if, it is robustly chaotic (robustly sensitive to initial conditions).

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@article{arxiv.1910.12095,
  title  = {On robust expansiveness for sectional hyperbolic attracting sets},
  author = {Vitor Araujo and Junilson Cerqueira},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1910.12095},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

33 pages; 07 figures; keywords: sectional-hyperbolicity, robust expansiveness, strong dissipativity, star flow, robust transitivity, robust chaotic, attracting sets. Refocused statements of main theorems and proof of more important results. Corrected some typos and improved some definitions

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