Existence of common zeros for commuting vector fields on three manifolds

DOI10.5802/AIF.3121MaRDI QIDQ4557591zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors C. Bonatti, Bruno Santiago

Publication date 26 November 2018

Published in Annales de l’institut Fourier (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1504.06104

zbMATH Keywords

commuting vector fieldsfixed pointsPoincaré-Hopf index

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamics induced by flows and semiflows (37C10) Fixed points and periodic points of dynamical systems; fixed-point index theory; local dynamics (37C25) Dynamics induced by group actions other than (mathbb{Z}) and (mathbb{R}), and (mathbb{C}) (37C85) Topological properties of groups of homeomorphisms or diffeomorphisms (57S05) Fixed-point theorems on manifolds (58C30)

Abstract: In $64$ E. Lima proved that commuting vector fields on surfaces with non-zero Euler characteristic have common zeros. Such statement is empty in dimension $3$, since all the Euler characteristics vanish. Nevertheless, cite{Bonatti_analiticos} proposed a local version, replacing the Euler characteristic by the Poincar'e-Hopf index of a vector field $X$ in a region $U$, denoted by $operatornameInd(X,U)$; he asked: emph{Given commuting vector fields $X,Y$ and a region $U$ where $operatornameInd(X,U)eq0$, does $U$ contain a common zero of $X$ and $Y$?} cite{Bonatti_analiticos} gave a positive answer in the case where $X$ and $Y$ are real analytic. In this paper, we prove the existence of common zeros for commuting $C^1$ vector fields $X$, $Y$ on a $3$-manifold, in any region $U$ such that $operatornameInd(X,U)eq0$, assuming that the set of collinearity of $X$ and $Y$ is contained in a smooth surface. This is a strong indication that the results in cite{Bonatti_analiticos} should hold for $C^1$-vector fields.

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