Braiding minimal sets of vector fields

Lagrange, Maxime

doi:10.1090/S0002-9939-02-06585-1

Braiding minimal sets of vector fields
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Abstract:

We extend a classical but fundamental theorem of knot and braid theories to describe the geometry of nonsingular minimal sets of 3-dimensional flows.

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