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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