On the Space of Trajectories of a Generic Vector Field

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Authors Dan Burghelea, Leonid Friedlander, T. Kappeler

Publication date 17 June 2011

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1101.0778

zbMATH Keywords

critical pointde Rham complexgradient-like vector fieldmanifold with cornersMorse complexMorse theoryMorse-Smale vector field

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Gradient-like behavior; isolated (locally maximal) invariant sets; attractors, repellers for topological dynamical systems (37B35) Morse-Smale systems (37D15) Singularities of differentiable mappings in differential topology (57R45) Critical points and critical submanifolds in differential topology (57R70) Abstract critical point theory (Morse theory, Lyusternik-Shnirel'man theory, etc.) in infinite-dimensional spaces (58E05)

Abstract: This paper describes the construction of a canonical compactification of the space of trajectories and of the unstable/stable sets of a generic gradient like vector field on a closed manifold as well as a canonical structure of a smooth manifold with corners of these spaces. As an application we discuss the geometric complex associated with a gradient like vector field and show how differential forms can be integrated on its unstable/stable sets. Integration leads to a morphism between the de Rham complex and the geometric complex.

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