Morse--Smale systems with few non-wandering points (Q1939209)

The authors of this paper consider Morse-Smale systems on a closed \(n\)-manifold \(M^n\) which non-wandering sets consist of \(3\) fixed points. In this case, they prove that \(n\in \{2,4,8,16\}\) and \(M^2\) is the projective plane. For \(n\geq 4\), \(M^n\) is simply connected and orientable. They classify the Morse-Smale flows on \(M^4\) (which non-wandering sets consist of \(3\) fixed points).