The loxodromic mapping problem

DOI10.1016/0022-0396(91)90164-5MaRDI QIDQ808501zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jenny Harrison

Publication date 1991

Published in Journal of Differential Equations (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/0022-0396(91)90164-5

zbMATH Keywords

point which attractspoint which repelsSeifert conjecturevector field on the three sphere

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Periodic solutions to ordinary differential equations (34C25) Attractors of solutions to ordinary differential equations (34D45) Bifurcations of limit cycles and periodic orbits in dynamical systems (37G15)

Review text

The author reduces the problem of the validity of the Seifert conjecture: Every vector field on the three sphere \(S^ 3\) has either a zero or a closed integral curve to a two dimensional problem. Namely it is shown that a vector field on \(S^ 3\) with no zeroes and no closed integral curves necessarily exists if there is a diffeomorphism of \(S^ 2\) with some dynamical properties; more precisely it is proved the following Theorem: Assume that there is a \(C^ r\) orientation preserving diffeomorphism f: \(S^ 2\to S^ 2\) with no other periodic points than the north pole N which repels and the south pole S which attracts. Suppose there exists one orbit asymptotic to both N and S and one orbit that is not. Then there exists a \(C^ r\) vector field on \(S^ 3\) which has no zeroes and no closed curves. Interesting examples and comments (one of them concerning Denjoy diffeomorphisms) are included.

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