Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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5778044 | Topology and its Applications | 2017 | 11 Pages |
Abstract
Smale flows on 3-manifolds can have invariant saddle sets that are suspensions of shifts of finite type. We look at Smale flows with chain recurrent sets consisting of an attracting closed orbit a, a repelling closed orbit r and a saddle set that is a suspension of a full n-shift and draw some conclusions about the knotting and linking of aâªr. For example, we show for all values of n it is possible for a and r to be unknots. For any even value of n it is possible for aâªr to be the Hopf link, a trefoil and meridian, or a figure-8 knot and meridian.
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Authors
Michael C. Sullivan,