Combing the hairy ball using a vector field without equilibria

DOI10.1007/S10883-019-09446-5MaRDI QIDQ2174255zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors L. F. Gonçalves, Tiago de Carvalho

Publication date 21 April 2020

Published in Journal of Dynamical and Control Systems (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s10883-019-09446-5

zbMATH Keywords

chaosminimal setpiecewise smooth vector field

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Discontinuous ordinary differential equations (34A36) Ordinary differential equations and systems on manifolds (34C40) Strange attractors, chaotic dynamics of systems with hyperbolic behavior (37D45)

Review text

The authors prove the existence of a piecewise smooth vector field \(Z\) tangent to the shere \(S^2\) without equilibrium points, and then they show that \(Z\) contains a chaotic non-trivial minimal set.

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