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318 Recent Advances in Topological Dynamics Proceedings of the Conference on Topological Dynamics, held at Yale University, June 19-23, 1972, in honor of Professor Gustav Arnold Hedlund on the occasion of his retirement.
Edited by Anatole Beck University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI/USA
Springer-Verlag Berlin · Heidel berg · New York 19 73
AMS Subject Classifications (1970): 28A65, 34C35, 47A35, 54H20
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Liapunov families can be paraphrased as
be a net in
X; we write
eventually in every F E 'f. If u 7 xn M if and only if V(xn) 0,
xn
7 +
M if {xn}
is
is an 7 -Liapunov family, then V E 1r.
for all
Using Liapunov families, the classical stability theorem can be generalized. Theorem.
Let
M be a closed invariant subset of the second countable
locally compact metric space hood filter of
M.
Then
7-Liapunov family for
X
M is
and let ~
be a sufficient neighbor-
~
stable if and only if there is an
M.
Our second topic is the study of dynamical systems which have no generalized recurrent points. order
a ,
if
x E A (x). a
points, and call
~ =U~
a a
A point We write
x EX ~
a
is said to be recurrent for the set of such
the generalized recurrent set.
the Poisson stable and non-wandering points.
~
includes
A compact dynamical
system always includes recurrent points (in fact, almost periodic points) so a dynamical system for which non-compact phenomenon.
~
is empty is an essentially
We call such systems gradient dynamical
systems; they are characterized by the existence of a continuous real valued function t
> 0,
[2].
f
such that
f(xt) < f(x),
for all
x
X
and
10
Now, if that
A (x)
¢
a
gradient.
=
J\(X)
for all
¢•
a
for all
and all
S x
then it follows easily and the flow is clearly
x,
In this case, the dynamical system is known to be parallel-
izable -there is a closed set to
x EX,
S
in
X
such that
X
is homeomorphic
and the flow corresponds to translation in the second
~.
coordinate, [1].
The general case (gradient, but not parallelizable)
is characterized by the existence of orbits which have non-empty prolongational limit sets.
These orbits are separatrices, as defined
X,
by Markus [?]-regarded as elements of the orbit space the points where Let above. Xr
=
f
X
they are
fails to be Hausdorff, or limits of such points.
be a function decreasing along every orbit, as described
We may suppose the range of 1
f- (r)
and
Zr
=
[xJxt E Xr'
f
is
J
Then i f
(-1,1).
for some
Z
t] (r E J),
r
is an
invariant set, and the flow
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