Stable foliations and CW-structure induced by a Morse–Smale gradient-like flow

DOI10.1142/S1793525321500527MaRDI QIDQ6182357zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Alberto Abbondandolo, Pietro Majer

Publication date 25 January 2024

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.07134

zbMATH Keywords

gradient flowstable foliationMorse-Smale flowCW-decomposition

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Gradient-like behavior; isolated (locally maximal) invariant sets; attractors, repellers for topological dynamical systems (37B35) Stability theory for smooth dynamical systems (37C75) Morse-Smale systems (37D15) Foliations in differential topology; geometric theory (57R30) Foliations generated by dynamical systems (37C86)

Abstract: We prove that a Morse-Smale gradient-like flow on a closed manifold has a "system of compatible invariant stable foliations" that is analogous to the object introduced by Palis and Smale in their proof of the structural stability of Morse-Smale diffeomorphisms and flows, but with finer regularity and geometric properties. We show how these invariant foliations can be used in order to give a self-contained proof of the well-known but quite delicate theorem stating that the unstable manifolds of a Morse-Smale gradient-like flow on a closed manifold $M$ are the open cells of a $CW$-decomposition of $M$.

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