Periodic orbits and P stable orbit closures of continuous flows on surfaces

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Authors Maoan Han

Publication date 1988

Published in Chinese Annals of Mathematics. Series B (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

flows non-zero-homotopic periodic orbits Poisson stable orbits

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Local and nonlocal bifurcation theory for dynamical systems (37G99)

Review text

This paper deals with the problem of the coexistence of non-zero- homotopic periodic orbits and Poisson stable orbits for flows on surfaces. It is known that on the torus they are incompatible. Let f be a continuous flow on the closed surface M of genus g, \(g\geq 2\), \(r_ 0\) the number of distinct Poisson stable orbit closures, r the number of non-zero-homotopic to each other (in the nonorientable case let \(r_ 1\) \((r_ 2)\) denote the number of such orbits, which, in addition, are one (two)-sided). The main result consists in the following two inequalities: \(r_ 0+r\leq 3g-3,\) if M is orientable, and \(4r_ 0+r_ 1+r_ 2\leq 3g-3\) in the nonorientable case. In both cases equalities are achieved. [See also \textit{N. G. Markley}, Proc. Am. Math. Soc. 25, 413-416 (1970; Zbl 0198.569).]

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