Discrete and continuous topological dynamics: Fields of cross sections and expansive flows

Alfonso Artigue

doi:10.3934/dcds.2016059

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2016, Volume 36, Issue 11: 5911-5927. Doi: 10.3934/dcds.2016059

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Discrete and continuous topological dynamics: Fields of cross sections and expansive flows

Alfonso Artigue^1,

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Departamento de Matemática y Estadística del Litoral, Universidad de la República, Gral. Rivera 1350, Salto

Received: February 2015

Revised: May 2016

Published online: August 2016

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In this article we consider the general problem of translating definitions and results from the category of discrete-time dynamical systems to the category of flows. We consider the dynamics of homeomorphisms and flows on compact metric spaces, in particular Peano continua. As a translating tool, we construct continuous, symmetric and monotonous fields of local cross sections for an arbitrary flow without singular points. Next, we use this structure in the study of expansive flows on Peano continua. We show that expansive flows have not stable points and that every point contains a non-trivial continuum in its stable set. As a corollary we obtain that no Peano continuum with an open set homeomorphic to the plane admits an expansive flow. In particular, compact surfaces do not admit expansive flows without singular points.

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Mathematics Subject Classification: 37B45, 37B05.

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