Abstract:
In this paper, for the case of 3-dimensional manifolds, we solve the Palis problem on finding necessary and sufficient conditions for a Morse-Smale cascade to embed in a topological flow. The set of such cascades is open
in the space of all diffeomorphisms, while the set of arbitrary diffeomorphisms that embed in a smooth
flow is nowhere dense. Also, we consider a class of diffeomorphisms that embed in a topological flow and prove that a complete topological invariant for this class is similar to the Andronova-Maier scheme and the Peixoto graph.
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Keywords:Morse-Smale diffeomorphism, Morse-Smale cascade, embedding in a flow, dynamical systems on manifolds.