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Reidemeister torsion and Morse–Smale flows

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 September 2008

Héctor Sánchez-Morgado
Héctor Sánchez-Morgado
Affiliation:
Instituto de Matemáticas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad Universitaria C.P. 04510, México D.F., México
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Abstract

For several types of stable flows φ and representations ρ of the fundamental group of the underlying manifold, R-torsion for ρ can be computed from the periodic orbits of φ. However, there are counterexamples and the purpose of this paper is to describe the role of heteroclinic orbits in such counterexamples.

Type
Research Article
Information
Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems , Volume 16 , Issue 2 , April 1996 , pp. 405 - 414
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1996

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