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Structure of optimal gradient flows bifurcations on closed surfaces

Dynamical Systems 2024-08-21 v1

Abstract

We consider structure of typical gradient flows bifurcations on closed surfaces with minimal number of singular points. There are two type of such bifurcations: saddle-node (SN) and saddle connections (SC). The structure of a bifurcation is determinated by codimension one flow in the moment of bifurcation. We use the chord diagrams to specify the flows up to topological trajectory equivivalence. A chord diagram with a marked arc is complete topological invariant of a SN-bifurcations and a chord diagram with T-insert -- of SC-bifurcations. We list all such diagrams for flows on norientable surfaces of genus at most 2 and nonorientable surfaces of genus at most 3. For each of diagram we found inverse one that correspond the inverse flow.

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@article{arxiv.2408.10687,
  title  = {Structure of optimal gradient flows bifurcations on closed surfaces},
  author = {Illia Ovtsynov and Alexandr Prishlyak},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2408.10687},
  year   = {2024}
}

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15 pages, 11 figures

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