Conley index and homology index braids in singular perturbation problems without uniqueness of solutions (Q1959000)

By approximation techniques, the Conley index is extended to the case of continuous vector fields on finite-dimensional smooth manifolds. The extended index preserves all main properties of the index defined for (semi)-flows. In particular, it enables to define the concept of a (co)homology index braid class for continuous vector-fields. Using that concept, a singular perturbation result in the absence of uniqueness is proved.