From Morse-Smale to all knots and links
Robert Ghrist; Todd Young
Журнал:
Nonlinearity
Дата:
1998-07-01
Аннотация:
We analyse the topological (knot-theoretic) features of a certain codimension-one bifurcation of a partially hyperbolic fixed point in a flow on originally described by Shil'nikov. By modifying how the invariant manifolds wrap around themselves, or `pleat', we may apply the theory of templates, or branched two-manifolds, to capture the topology of the flow. This analysis yields a class of flows which bifurcate from a Morse-Smale flow to a Smale flow containing periodic orbits of all knot and link types.
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