Gradient flow line near birth-death critical points

DOI10.1142/S1793525319500493MaRDI QIDQ5115624zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Charel Antony

Publication date 17 August 2020

Published in Journal of Topology and Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.07746

zbMATH Keywords

Conley indexcritical pointbirth-death singularitygradient trajectoryWhitney normal form

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Index theory for dynamical systems, Morse-Conley indices (37B30) Gradient-like behavior; isolated (locally maximal) invariant sets; attractors, repellers for topological dynamical systems (37B35) Morse-Smale systems (37D15) Bifurcations of singular points in dynamical systems (37G10)

Abstract: Near a birth-death critical point in a one-parameter family of gradient flows, there are precisely two Morse critical points of index difference one on the birth side. This paper gives a self-contained proof of the folklore theorem that these two critical points are joined by a unique gradient trajectory up to time-shift. The proof is based on the Whitney normal form, a Conley index construction, and an adiabatic limit analysis for an associated fast-slow differential equation.

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