Skip to main content

All Questions

Filter by
Sorted by
Tagged with
3 votes
0 answers
134 views

Why is a hyperbolic basic set of dimension 2 either an attractor or a repeller?

I'm currently trying to understand the Birman-Williams Template Theorem, proved in the paper "Knotted periodic orbits II: Fibered knots, Low Dimensional Topology". Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to ...
asldjk's user avatar
  • 318
2 votes
1 answer
752 views

Angle between two subspaces

Let $f:M\to M$ be a diffeomorphism on a compact riemannian manifold $M$.In the definition of a hyperbolic set we know that for all $x\in M$ there is a splitting of tangent space $T_xM=E^s(x)\oplus E^...
mac's user avatar
  • 279