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Zero sets of Lie algebras of analytic vector fields on real and complex 2-dimensional manifolds, II

Dynamical Systems 2016-06-28 v1

Abstract

On a real (F=R\mathbb F=\mathbb R) or complex (F=C\mathbb F=\mathbb C) analytic connected 2-manifold MM with empty boundary consider two vector fields X,YX,Y. We say that YY {\it tracks} XX if [Y,X]=fX[Y,X]=fX for some continuous function f ⁣:MFf\colon M\rightarrow\mathbb F. Let KK be a compact subset of the zero set Z(X){\mathsf Z}(X) such that Z(X)K{\mathsf Z}(X)-K is closed, with nonzero Poincar\'e-Hopf index (for example K=Z(X)K={\mathsf Z}(X) when MM is compact and χ(M)0\chi(M)\neq 0) and let G\mathcal G be a finite-dimensional Lie algebra of analytic vector fields on MM. \smallskip {\bf Theorem.} Let XX be analytic and nontrivial. If every element of G\mathcal G tracks XX and, in the complex case when iK(X){\mathsf i}_K (X) is positive and even no quotient of G\mathcal G is isomorphic to sl(2,C){\mathfrak {s}}{\mathfrak {l}} (2,\mathbb C), then G\mathcal G has some zero in KK. \smallskip {\bf Corollary.} If YY tracks a nontrivial vector field XX, both of them analytic, then YY vanishes somewhere in KK. \smallskip Besides fixed point theorems for certain types of transformation groups are proved. Several illustrative examples are given.

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@article{arxiv.1606.08322,
  title  = {Zero sets of Lie algebras of analytic vector fields on real and complex 2-dimensional manifolds, II},
  author = {Morris W. Hirsch and F. -J. Turiel},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1606.08322},
  year   = {2016}
}