Knots and solenoids that cannot be attractors of self-homeomorphisms of R^3

DOI10.1093/IMRN/RNZ251zbMATH Open1487.37030arXiv1806.11151OpenAlexW3100555886MaRDI QIDQ5021168FDOQ5021168

Authors: Héctor Barge, Jaime J. Sánchez-Gabites 

Publication date: 12 January 2022

Published in: IMRN. International Mathematics Research Notices (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: As a first step to understand how complicated attractors for dynamical systems can be, one may consider the following realizability problem: given a continuum $Ksubseteqmathbb{R}^3$, decide when $K$ can be realized as an attractor for a homeomorphism of $mathbb{R}^3$. In this paper we introduce toroidal sets as those continua $Ksubseteqmathbb{R}^3$ that have a neighbourhood basis comprised of solid tori and, generalizing the classical notion of genus of a knot, give a natural definition of the genus of toroidal sets and study some of its properties. Using these tools we exhibit knots and solenoids for which the answer to the realizability problem stated above is negative.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.11151

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zbMATH Keywords

knotshomeomorphismsrealizability problem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Topological and differentiable equivalence, conjugacy, moduli, classification of dynamical systems (37C15) Attractors and repellers of smooth dynamical systems and their topological structure (37C70) Knot theory (57K10)

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