Causal Holography of Traversing Flows
We study smooth traversing vector fields v on compact manifolds X with boundary. A traversing v admits a Lyapunov function f:X→R such that df(v)>0. We show that the trajectory spaces T(v) of traversally generic v-flows are Whitney stratified spaces, and thus admit triangulations amenable to their...
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| description | We study smooth traversing vector fields v on compact manifolds X with boundary. A traversing v admits a Lyapunov function f:X→R such that df(v)>0. We show that the trajectory spaces T(v) of traversally generic v-flows are Whitney stratified spaces, and thus admit triangulations amenable to their natural stratifications. Despite being spaces with singularities, T(v) retain some residual smooth structure of X. Let F(v) denote the oriented 1-dimensional foliation on X, produced by a traversing v-flow. With the help of a boundary generic v, we divide the boundary ∂X of X into two complementary compact manifolds, ∂+X(v) and ∂−X(v). Then, for a traversing v, we introduce the causality map Cv:∂+X(v)→∂−X(v). Our main result claims that, for boundary generic traversing vector fields v, the causality map Cv allows for a reconstruction of the pair (X,F(v)), up to a homeomorphism Φ:X→X such that Φ|∂X=id∂X. In other words, for a massive class of ODEs, we show that the topology of their solutions, satisfying a given boundary value problem, is rigid. We call these results “holographic” since the (n+1)-dimensional X and the un-parameterized dynamics of the v-flow are captured by a single map Cv between two n-dimensional screens, ∂+X(v) and ∂−X(v). This holography of traversing flows has numerous applications to the dynamics of general flows. Some of them are described in the paper. Others, are just outlined. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1297832022-10-01T15:31:29Z Causal Holography of Traversing Flows Katz, Gabriel Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mathematics We study smooth traversing vector fields v on compact manifolds X with boundary. A traversing v admits a Lyapunov function f:X→R such that df(v)>0. We show that the trajectory spaces T(v) of traversally generic v-flows are Whitney stratified spaces, and thus admit triangulations amenable to their natural stratifications. Despite being spaces with singularities, T(v) retain some residual smooth structure of X. Let F(v) denote the oriented 1-dimensional foliation on X, produced by a traversing v-flow. With the help of a boundary generic v, we divide the boundary ∂X of X into two complementary compact manifolds, ∂+X(v) and ∂−X(v). Then, for a traversing v, we introduce the causality map Cv:∂+X(v)→∂−X(v). Our main result claims that, for boundary generic traversing vector fields v, the causality map Cv allows for a reconstruction of the pair (X,F(v)), up to a homeomorphism Φ:X→X such that Φ|∂X=id∂X. In other words, for a massive class of ODEs, we show that the topology of their solutions, satisfying a given boundary value problem, is rigid. We call these results “holographic” since the (n+1)-dimensional X and the un-parameterized dynamics of the v-flow are captured by a single map Cv between two n-dimensional screens, ∂+X(v) and ∂−X(v). This holography of traversing flows has numerous applications to the dynamics of general flows. Some of them are described in the paper. Others, are just outlined. 2021-02-17T16:15:09Z 2021-02-17T16:15:09Z 2020-11-18 2021-02-06T04:22:09Z Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 1572-9222 1040-7294 https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/129783 Katz, Gabriel. “Causal Holography of Traversing Flows.” Journal of Dynamics and Differential Equations, 33 (November 2020): 235-274 © 2020 The Author en https://doi.org/10.1007/s10884-020-09910-y Journal of Dynamics and Differential Equations Article is made available in accordance with the publisher's policy and may be subject to US copyright law. Please refer to the publisher's site for terms of use. Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature application/pdf Springer US Springer US |
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