Topology of ambient manifolds of non-singular Morse – Smale flows with three periodic orbits

The purpose of this study is to establish the topological properties of three-dimensional manifolds which admit Morse – Smale flows without fixed points (non-singular or NMS-flows) and give examples of such manifolds that are not lens spaces. Despite the fact that it is known that any such manifold is a union of circular handles, their topology can be investigated additionally and refined in the case of a small number of orbits. For example, in the case of a flow with two non-twisted (having a tubular neighborhood homeomorphic to a solid torus) orbits, the topology of such manifolds is established exactly: any ambient manifold of an NMS-flow with two orbits is a lens space. Previously, it was believed that all prime manifolds admitting NMS-flows with at most three non-twisted orbits have the same topology. Methods. In this paper, we consider suspensions over Morse – Smale diffeomorphisms with three periodic orbits. These suspensions, in turn, are NMS-flows with three periodic trajectories. Universal coverings of the ambient manifolds of these flows and lens spaces are considered. Results. In this paper, we present a countable set of pairwise distinct simple 3-manifolds admitting NMS-flows with exactly three non-twisted orbits. Conclusion. From the results of this paper it follows that there is a countable set of pairwise distinct three-dimensional manifolds other than lens spaces, which refutes the previously published result that any simple orientable manifold admitting an NMS-flow with at most three orbits is lens space.

Classification of the Morse – Smale flows on surfaces with a finite moduli of stability number in sense of topological conjugacy

Purpose. The purpose of this study is to consider the class of Morse – Smale flows on surfaces, to characterize its subclass consisting of flows with a finite number of moduli of stability, and to obtain a topological classification of such flows up to topological conjugacy, that is, to find an invariant that shows that there exists a homeomorphism that transfers the trajectories of one flow to the trajectories of another while preserving the direction of movement and the time of movement along the trajectories; for the obtained invariant, to construct a polynomial algorithm for recognizing its isomorphism and to construct the realisation of the invariant by a standard flow on the surface. Methods. Methods for finding moduli of topological conjugacy go back to the classical works of J. Palis, W. di Melo and use smooth flow lianerization in a neighborhood of equilibrium states and limit cycles. For the classification of flows, the traditional methods of dividing the phase surface into regions with the same behavior of trajectories are used, which are a modification of the methods of A. A. Andronov, E. A. Leontovich, and A. G. Mayer. Results. It is shown that a Morse – Smale flow on a surface has a finite number of moduli if and only if it does not have a trajectory going from one limit cycle to another. For a subclass of Morse – Smale flows with a finite number of moduli, a classification is done up to topological conjugacy by means of an equipped graph. Conclusion. The criterion for the finiteness of the number of moduli of Morse – Smale flows on surfaces is obtained. A topological invariant is constructed that describes the topological conjugacy class of a Morse – Smale flow on a surface with a finite number of modules, that is, without trajectories going from one limit cycle to another.

Morse-Bott energy function for surface Ω-stable flows

In this paper, we consider the class of Ω-stable flows on surfaces, i.e. flows on surfaces with the non-wandering set consisting of a finite number of hyperbolic fixed points and a finite number of hyperbolic limit cycles. The class of Ω -stable flows is a generalization of the class of Morse-Smale flows, admitting the presence of saddle connections that do not form cycles. The authors have constructed the Morse-Bott energy function for any such flow. The results obtained are an ideological continuation of the classical works of S. Smale, who proved the existence of the Morse energy function for gradient-like flows, and K. Meyer, who established the existence of the Morse-Bott energy function for Morse-Smale flows. The specificity of Ω-stable flows takes them beyond the framework of structural stability, but the decrease along the trajectories of such flows is still tracked by the regular Lyapunov function.

On functional moduli of surface flows

Currently, an complete topological classification has been obtained with respect to the topological equivalence of Morse-Smale flows, [9, 7], as well as their generalizations of Ω-stable flows on closed surfaces, [4]. Some results on topological conjugacy classification for such systems are also known. In particular, the coincidence of the classes of topological equivalence and conjugacy of gradient-like flows (Morse-Smale flows without periodic orbits) was established in [3]. In the classical paper [8], it was proved that in the presence of connections (coincidence of saddle separatrices), the topological equivalence class of a Ω-stable flow splits into a continuum of topological conjugacy classes (has moduli). Obviously, each periodic orbit also generates at least one modulus associated with the period of that orbit. In the present work, it was established that the presence of a cell in a flow bounded by two limit cycles leads to the existence of an infinitely many stability moduli. In addition, a criterion for the topological conjugation of flows on such cells was found.

Energy function for Ω-stable flows without limit cycles on surfaces

The paper is devoted to the study of the class of Ω-stable flows without limit cycles on surfaces, i.e. flows on surfaces with non-wandering set consisting of a finite number of hyperbolic fixed points. This class is a generalization of the class of gradient-like flows, differing by forbiddance of saddle points connected by separatrices. The results of the work are the proof of the existence of a Morse energy function for any flow from the considered class and the construction of such a function for an arbitrary flow of the class. Since the results are a generalization of the corresponding results of K. Meyer for Morse-Smale flows and, in particular, for gradient-like flows, the methods for constructing the energy function for the case of this article are a further development of the methods used by K. Meyer, taking in sense the specifics of Ω-stable flows having a more complex structure than gradient-like flows due to the presence of the so-called "chains" of saddle points connected by their separatrices.

On embedding of invariant manifolds of the simplest Morse-Smale flows with heteroclinical intersections

We study a structure of four-dimensional phase space decomposition on trajectories of Morse-Smale flows admitting heteroclinical intersections. More precisely, we consider a class G(S4) of Morse-Smale flows on the sphere S4 such that for any flow f∈G(S4) its non-wandering set consists of exactly four equilibria: source, sink and two saddles. Wandering set of such flows contains finite number of heteroclinical curves that belong to intersection of invariant manifolds of saddle equilibria. We describe a topology of embedding of saddle equilibria’s invariant manifolds; that is the first step in the solution of topological classification problem. In particular, we prove that the closures of invariant manifolds of saddle equlibria that do not contain heteroclinical curves are locally flat 2-sphere and closed curve. These manifolds are attractor and repeller of the flow. In set of orbits that belong to the basin of attraction or repulsion we construct a section that is homeomoprhic to the direct product S2×S1. We study a topology of intersection of saddle equlibria’s invariant manifolds with this section.