Topological conjugacy of cascades generated by gradient flows on the two-dimensional sphere (Q4521767)

Consider the dynamical system \(\phi\) generated by a gradient differential equation \[ \dot{x}=-\text{grad} E(x) \] on the unit sphere of the space \({\mathbb R}^3\). It is assumed that \(\phi\) has a finite number of rest points, that these rest points are hyperbolic, and that \(\phi\) has no saddle-connections (i.e., \(\phi\) is a Morse-Smale system). Let \(\psi_h\) be the Euler discretization of \(\phi\) with step \(h\). The author shows that, for small \(h\), \(\psi_h\) is globally topologically conjugate to the time \(h\) shift along trajectories of the system \(\phi\).