Structural Stability of Morse--Smale Gradient-like Flows under Discretizations (Q4337404)

The author shows that the qualitative property of a Morse-Smale gradient-like flow is preserved by its discretization mapping obtained via numerical methods. This means that for all sufficiently small \(h>0\), there is a homeomorphism \(H_h\) conjugating the time \(h\)-map \(\Phi^h\) of the flow to the discretization mapping \(\varphi^h\). Here the author only needs a \(C^{p+1}\) discretization mapping with \(p\geq 2\) rather than \(C^{p+k+1}\), where \(p+k\geq 3\), which \textit{B. M. Garay} worked with in [Numer. Math. 72, No. 4, 449--479 (1996; Zbl 0865.65058)]. The author also considers the problem of a manifold with boundary.