Nilpotent singularities in generic 4-parameter families of 3-dimensional vector fields (Q1914829)

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Nilpotent singularities in generic 4-parameter families of 3-dimensional vector fields
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    Nilpotent singularities in generic 4-parameter families of 3-dimensional vector fields (English)
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    9 June 1996
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    The paper deals with singularities of vector fields in \(\mathbb{R}^3\) having a 1-jet linear conjugate to \(y\bigl(\frac{\partial}{\partial x}\bigr)+z\bigl(\frac{\partial}{\partial y}\bigr)\). The authors prove that in codimension 3 all singularities are mutually \(C^0\) equivalent. A very interesting result is that for codimension 4 there are exactly 5 types of singularities for \(C^0\) equivalence. The proof is based on normal form theory, blowing-up, and estimation of Abelian integrals.
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    Morse-Smale vector fields
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    singularities
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    normal form
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