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

DOI10.1142/S1793525321500527arXiv2003.07134MaRDI QIDQ6182357FDOQ6182357

Pietro Majer, Alberto Abbondandolo

Publication date: 25 January 2024

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

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 $M$.

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)

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