Some topological invariants for three-dimensional flows.
We deal here with vector fields on three manifolds. For a system with a homoclinic orbit to a saddle-focus point, we show that the imaginary part of the complex eigenvalues is a conjugacy invariant. We show also that the ratio of the real part of the complex eigenvalue over the real one is invariant under topological equivalence. For a system with two saddle-focus points and an orbit connecting the one-dimensional invariant manifold of those points, we compute a conjugacy invariant related to the eigenvalues of the vector field at the singularities. (c) 2001 American Institute of Physics.
Dufraine
Emmanuel
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Universite de Bourgogne, Laboratoire de Topologie, U.M.R. 5584 du C.N.R.S., B.P. 47870-21078 Dijon Cedex, France.