On topology of manifolds admitting gradient-like calscades with surface dynamics and on growth of the number of non-compact heteroclinic curves

Abstract

We consider a class GSD(M3) of gradient-like diffeomorphisms with surface dynamics given on closed oriented manifold M3 of dimension three. Earlier it was proved that manifolds admitting such diffeomorphisms are mapping tori under closed orientable surface of genus g, and the number of non-compact heteroclinic curves of such diffeomorphisms is not less than 12g. In this paper, we determine a class of diffeomorphisms GSDR(M3)⊂GSD(M3) that have the minimum number of heteroclinic curves for a given number of periodic points, and prove that the supporting manifold of such diffeomorphisms is a Seifert manifold. The separatrices of periodic points of diffeomorphisms from the class GSDR(M3) have regular asymptotic behavior, in particular, their closures are locally flat. We provide sufficient conditions (independent on dynamics) for mapping torus to be Seifert. At the same time, the paper establishes that for any fixed g geq1, fixed number of periodic points, and any integer n≥12g, there exists a manifold M3 and a diffeomorphism f∈GSD(M3) having exactly n non-compact heteroclinic curves.