The loxodromic mapping problem (Q808501)

The author reduces the problem of the validity of the Seifert conjecture: Every vector field on the three sphere \(S^ 3\) has either a zero or a closed integral curve'' to a two dimensional problem. Namely it is shown that a vector field on \(S^ 3\) with no zeroes and no closed integral curves necessarily exists if there is a diffeomorphism of \(S^ 2\) with some dynamical properties; more precisely it is proved the following Theorem: Assume that there is a \(C^ r\) orientation preserving diffeomorphism f: \(S^ 2\to S^ 2\) with no other periodic points than the north pole N which repels and the south pole S which attracts. Suppose there exists one orbit asymptotic to both N and S and one orbit that is not. Then there exists a \(C^ r\) vector field on \(S^ 3\) which has no zeroes and no closed curves. Interesting examples and comments (one of them concerning Denjoy diffeomorphisms) are included.