Strong stable manifolds for sectional-hyperbolic sets (Q2372661)

Given a flow on a manifold and a point \(x\), the strong stable manifold of \(x\) consists of those points whose flow lines approximate that of \(x\) for \(t\to\infty\). An \(\varepsilon\)-neighborhood of \(x\) in the strong stable manifold of \(x\) is called a local strong stable manifold of \(x\). A set is transitive if it is the \(\omega\)-limit set of one of its points. In the hierarchy of refinements of hyperbolic, partially hyperbolic, singular-hyperbolic, and sectional-hyperbolic invariant sets, the latter notion refers to 2-dimensional-subspaces of the central subspace. The main theorem of the paper says that on a compact manifold of dimension at least 3 a transitive sectional-hyperbolic set with singularities does not contain any local strong stable manifold. From this, various consequences are derived. E.g., a proper transitive sectional-hyperbolic set has empty interior and is of lower dimension. And a singular-hyperbolic attractor with singularities on a compact 3-manifold is expanding.