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Taurida Journal of Computer Science Theory and Mathematics, 2021 Issue 4, Pages 40–51 (Mi tvim130)

Polar Morse-Smale systems with two saddles on $n$-sphere

E. V. Zhuzhoma, V. S. Medvedev

State University – Higher School of Economics, Nizhny Novgorod Branch

Abstract: In the paper, one constructs the examples of polar Morse-Smale systems (diffeomorphisms and flows) with a sink fixed point, source fixed point and two saddles fixed points on $n$-dimensional sphere $\mathbb{S}^n$, $n\geq 3$. To prove this result, we construct different decompositions of the $n$-dimensional sphere $\mathbb{S}^n$. Moreover, the Morse index of a saddle fixed point can be any value between $1$ and $n-1$, and the Morse indexes of the saddles fixed points are always different. One proves that the unstable manifold of the saddle fixed point with the biggest Morse index is (transversally) intersected with the stable manifold of another saddle fixed point.

Keywords: Morse-Smale dynamical system, separatrix, Morse index.

UDC: 517.938

MSC: 37D15



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