Morse-Smale flows and homotopy theory

DOI10.1016/0040-9383(79)90003-XzbMath0426.58013OpenAlexW2084082065MaRDI QIDQ1136142

John Franks

Publication date: 1979

Published in: Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0040-9383(79)90003-x

zbMATH Keywords

Lyapunov functionvector fieldMorse functioncross-sectionframed manifoldMorse-Smale flowPontryagin-Thom constructionattaching mapconnecting manifoldCW decomposition

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General topology of complexes (57Q05) Vector fields, frame fields in differential topology (57R25) Dynamics induced by flows and semiflows (37C10) Morse-Smale systems (37D15) Homotopy spheres, Poincaré conjecture (57R60) Cellularity in topological manifolds (57N60)

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