Bifurcation and stability of families of hyperbolic vector fields in dimension three (Q1357501)

Let \(M\) be a \({\mathcal C}^\infty\) compact boundaryless 3-dimensional manifold and \(\chi^\infty (M)\) denote the space of \({\mathcal C}^\infty\) vector fields on \(M\). The object of the study is the space \(\chi_1^\infty (M)\) of all \({\mathcal C}^\infty\) arcs \(\xi: I=[-1,1] \to \chi^\infty (M)\). For \(\xi\in \chi_1^\infty(M)\) we let \(\xi= \{X_\mu\}\) where \(X_\mu =\xi (\mu)\) for each \(\mu \in I\). Hence, \(\xi\) is a one-parameter family of vector fields on \(M\). We say that \(\{X_\mu\}\) is stable at \(\overline \mu\in I\), if there exists a neighborhood \({\mathfrak U}\) of \(\{X_\mu\}\) in \(\chi_1^\infty (M)\) such that for each \(\{Y_\mu\} \in {\mathfrak U}\), there is a parameter value \(\widetilde \mu \in I\) near \(\overline\mu\) and a homeomorphism \(H:M \times \overline I\to M \times \widetilde I\) where \(\overline I\), respectively \(\widetilde I\), is a neighborhood of \(\overline\mu\), respectively of \(\widetilde\mu\), in \(I\) and \(H(x,\mu) =(h_\mu (x), \rho (\mu))\), with \(\rho: (\overline I, \overline\mu) \to (\widetilde I, \widetilde \mu)\) a reparametrization and \(h_\mu: M\to M\) is a topological equivalence between \(X_\mu\) and \(Y_{\rho (\mu)}\), and the map \(\mu \mapsto h_\mu\) is continuous. In the paper the authors investigate the conditions under which the family \(\{X_\mu\}\) is stable at \(\overline \mu\in I\). Roughly speaking, \(\{X_\mu\}\) is stable at \(\overline \mu\), if \(\overline \mu\) is its first bifurcation value in \(I\) and for \(\mu= \overline \mu\) the vector field \(X_{\overline \mu}\) has one and only one orbit \(\overline \gamma\) along which it is not locally stable. The authors consider only the cases in which \(\overline \gamma\) is an orbit of the following type: (1) an isolated saddle-node singularity; (2) an isolated Hopf singularity; (3) an isolated flip periodic orbit; (4) an isolated saddle-node periodic orbit; (5) a flip periodic orbit arising from two hyperbolic periodic orbits inside a basic set. This interesting paper is well written and organized.