These lectures give a clear and unified exposition of a major area of current research on the connections between dynamics and topology, treating the fundamental problem--what dynamics can occur in a prescribed homological setting--via algebraic chain complexes derived from the unstable manifold dec
Homology and dynamical systems
โ Scribed by John M. Franks
- Publisher
- AMS
- Year
- 1982
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 130
- Series
- Cbms Regional Conference Series in Mathematics
- Category
- Library
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โฆ Synopsis
These lectures give a clear and unified exposition of a major area of current research on the connections between dynamics and topology, treating the fundamental problem--what dynamics can occur in a prescribed homological setting--via algebraic chain complexes derived from the unstable manifold decomposition of dynamics.
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