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March  2019, 24(3): 1143-1173. doi: 10.3934/dcdsb.2019010

## A topological characterization of the $\omega$-limit sets of analytic vector fields on open subsets of the sphere

 Departamento de Matemáticas, Universidad de Murcia, Campus de Espinardo, 30100 Murcia, Spain

* Corresponding author: V. Jiménez López

Received  September 2017 Revised  March 2018 Published  January 2019

Fund Project: This work has been partially supported by Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad, Spain, grant MTM2014-52920-P. The first author has been also supported by Fundación Séneca by means of the program "Contratos Predoctorales de Formación del Personal Investigador", grant 18910/FPI/13.

In [15], V. Jiménez López and J. Llibre characterized, up to homeomorphism, the $\omega$-limit sets of analytic vector fields on the sphere and the projective plane. The authors also studied the same problem for open subsets of these surfaces.

Unfortunately, an essential lemma in their programme for general surfaces has a gap. Although the proof of this lemma can be amended in the case of the sphere, the plane, the projective plane and the projective plane minus one point (and therefore the characterizations for these surfaces in [15] are correct), the lemma is not generally true, see [6].

Consequently, the topological characterization for analytic vector fields on open subsets of the sphere and the projective plane is still pending. In this paper, we close this problem in the case of open subsets of the sphere.

Citation: José Ginés Espín Buendía, Víctor Jiménez Lopéz. A topological characterization of the $\omega$-limit sets of analytic vector fields on open subsets of the sphere. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems - B, 2019, 24 (3) : 1143-1173. doi: 10.3934/dcdsb.2019010
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##### References:
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Jiménez López, Some remarks on the $\omega$-limit sets for plane, sphere and projective plane analytic flows, Qual. Theory Dyn. Syst., 16 (2017), 293-298.  doi: 10.1007/s12346-016-0192-1.  Google Scholar [7] H. M. Gehman, On extending a continuous $(1\text{-}1)$ correspondence of two plane continuous curves to a correspondence of their planes, Trans. Amer. Math. Soc., 28 (1926), 252-265.  doi: 10.2307/1989114.  Google Scholar [8] H. M. Gehman, On extending a continuous (1-1) correspondence. Ⅱ, Trans. Amer. Math. Soc., 31 (1929), 241-252.  doi: 10.2307/1989382.  Google Scholar [9] H. Grauert, On Levi's problem and the imbedding of real-analytic manifolds, Ann. of Math. (2), 68 (1958), 460-472.  doi: 10.2307/1970257.  Google Scholar [10] M. J. Greenberg, Lectures on Algebraic Topology, W. A. Benjamin, New York-Amsterdam, 1967.  Google Scholar [11] C. Gutiérrez, Smoothing continuous flows on two-manifolds and recurrences, Ergodic Theory Dynam. Systems, 6 (1986), 17-44.  doi: 10.1017/S0143385700003278.  Google Scholar [12] F. Harary, Graph Theory, Addison-Wesley, Reading-Menlo Park-London, 1969.  Google Scholar [13] A. Hatcher, Algebraic Topology, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2002.   Google Scholar [14] W. Huebsch and M. Morse, Diffeomorphisms of manifolds, Rend. Circ. Mat. Palermo (2), 11 (1962), 291-318.  doi: 10.1007/BF02843877.  Google Scholar [15] V. Jiménez López and J. Llibre, A topological characterization of the $\omega$-limit sets for analytic flows on the plane, the sphere and the projective plane, Adv. Math., 216 (2007), 677-710.  doi: 10.1016/j.aim.2007.06.007.  Google Scholar [16] V. Jiménez López and G. Soler López, A characterization of $\omega$-limit sets for continuous flows on surfaces, Boll. Unione Mat. Ital. Sez. B Artic. Ric. Mat. (8), 9 (2006), 515-521.   Google Scholar [17] U. Karimov. D. Repovš, W. Rosicki and A. Zastrow, On two-dimensional planar compacta not homotopically equivalent to any one-dimensional compactum, Topology Appl., 153 (2005), 284-293.  doi: 10.1016/j.topol.2004.02.020.  Google Scholar [18] J. R. Kline, Concerning sense on closed curves in non-metrical plane analysis situs, Ann. of Math. (2), 21 (1919), 113-119.  doi: 10.2307/2007227.  Google Scholar [19] E. A. Knobelauch, Extensions of homeomorphisms, Duke Math. J., 16 (1949), 247-259.  doi: 10.1215/S0012-7094-49-01624-5.  Google Scholar [20] K. Kuratowski, Topology. Volume Ⅱ, Academic Press, New York, 1968.   Google Scholar [21] S. Mac Lane and V. W. Adkisson, Extensions of homeomorphisms on the sphere, in Lectures in Topology (ed. C. Chevalley), University of Michigan Press, (1941), 223–236  Google Scholar [22] S. Mac Lane and V. W. Adkisson, Fixed points and the extension of the homeomorphisms of a Planar Graph, Amer. J. Math., 60 (1938), 611-639.  doi: 10.2307/2371602.  Google Scholar [23] C. Pommerenke, Univalent Functions, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen, 1975.  Google Scholar [24] W. Rudin, Real and Complex Analysis, Third edition, McGraw-Hill, New York, 1987.  Google Scholar [25] R. A. Smith and E. S. Thomas, Transitive flows on two-dimensional manifolds, J. London Math. Soc. (2), 37 (1988), 569-576.  doi: 10.1112/jlms/s2-37.3.569.  Google Scholar [26] K. Spindler, Abstract Algebra with Applications. Volume Ⅱ. Rings and Fields, Marcel Dekker, New York, 1994.  Google Scholar [27] D. Sullivan, Combinatorial invariants of analytic spaces, in Proceedings of Liverpool Singularities--Symposium, Ⅰ (1969/70) (ed. C. T. C. Wall), Springer, (1971), 165–168.  Google Scholar [28] R. Vinograd, On the limit behavior of an unbounded integral curve (Russian), Moskov. Gos. Univ. Uč. Zap. 155, Mat., 5 (1952), 94-136.   Google Scholar [29] J. H. C. Whitehead, Manifolds with transverse fields in euclidean space, Ann. of Math., 73 (1961), 154-212.  doi: 10.2307/1970286.  Google Scholar [30] H. Whitney, Analytic extensions of differentiable functions defined in closed sets, Trans. Amer. Math. Soc., 36 (1934), 63-89.  doi: 10.1090/S0002-9947-1934-1501735-3.  Google Scholar [31] H. Whitney and F. Bruhat, Quelques propriétés fondamentales des ensembles analytiques-réels, (French) [Some fundamental properties of real analytic sets], Comment. Math. Helv., 33 (1959), 132-160.  doi: 10.1007/BF02565913.  Google Scholar [32] S. Willard, General Topology, Dover Publications, Mineola, 1970.  Google Scholar
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