Smale Flows on Three Dimensional Manifolds
We discuss how to realize simple Smale Flows on 3-manifolds. We focus on three questions: (1) What are the topological conjugate classes of Lorenz Smale flows that can be realized on S 3 ? (2) Which 3-manifolds can also admit a Lorenz Smale flow? (3) What are the topological conjugate classes of simple Smale flows whose saddle set can be modeled by &nu(0+,0+,0,0) can be realized on S 3 ? This dissertation extends the work of M. Sullivan and B. Yu.
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