Graph representations of surface flows

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Authors Tomoo Yokoyama

Publication date 16 March 2017

Abstract: We construct a complete invariant for non-wandering surface flows with finitely many singular points but without locally dense orbits. Precisely, we show that a flow $v$ with finitely many singular points on a compact connected surface $S$ is a non-wandering flow without locally dense orbits if and only if $S/v_{mathrmex}$ is a non-trivial embedded multi-graph, where the extended orbit space $S/v_{mathrmex}$ is the quotient space defined by $xsimy$ if they belong to either a same orbit or a same multi-saddle connection. Moreover, collapsing edges of the non-trivial embedded multi-graph $S/v_{mathrmex}$ into singletons, the quotient space $(S/v_{mathrmex})/si{m}_E$ is an abstract multi-graph with the Alexandroff topology with respect to the specialization order. Therefore the non-wandering flow $v$ with finitely many singular points but without locally dense orbits can be reconstruct by finite combinatorial structures, which are the multi-saddle connection diagram and the abstract multi-graph $(S/v_{mathrmex})/si{m}_E$ with labels. Moreover, though the set of topological equivalent classes of irrational rotations (i.e. minimal flows) on a torus is uncountable, the set of topological equivalent classes of non-wandering flows with finitely many singular points but without locally dense orbits on compact surfaces is enumerable by combinatorial structures algorithmically.

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