Qualitative Theory of Differentiable Dynamical Systems

Preface to the English Edition
Preface to the Chinese Edition.
Chapter 1 Certain Ergodic Properties of a Differential System on a Compact Differentiable Manifold
1.1 One-parameter Transformation Groups on Frame Bundles
1.2 Covariant Differentiation, the Function ωk(α)
1.3 The Function logζαk(t)
1.4 The Style Number k*(F)
1.5 On the Determination of the Style Number
1.6 Comparison of Certain Functions
1.7 3-dimensional Systems with Degenerate Style Numbers
1.8 Square Matrix Rα(t) and Divergence divS
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Chapter 2 Standard Systems of Differential Equations
2.1 A Review of Standard Systems of Differential Equations
2.2 Another Class of Standard Systems of Differential Equations
2.3 Families Adp of Differential Equations
2.4 An Application
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Chapter 3 Obstruction Sets and Strong Transversality Condition
3.1 Introduction
3.2 The Obstruction Set Ob(S)
3.3 Statement of Results
3.4 Trough Sets
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Chapter 4 Obstruction Sets (I)
4.1 Trough Sets
4.2 Obstruction Set Ob(S)
4.3 Singularities
4.4 Linear Theory of Normal Sets
4.5 Linear Theory of Normal Sets (continued)
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Chapter 5 On the Stability Conjecture
5.1 Introduction and Statements of the Main Results
5.2 The Class X*(Mn) of Vector Fields
5.3 Contractible Periodic Orbits
5.4 The Case S ∈ X*(M3)
5.5 The "Sifting" Lemma and the Proof of Theorem 5.4.1
5.6 Proofs of Theorems 5.1.1 and 5.1.2
Appendix
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Chapter 6 Obstruction Sets (II)
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Obstruction Sets and Minimal Rambling Sets
6.3 Simply Minimal Rambling Sets
6.4 The Set M(η,T;p) and the Hunched Set R(ζ,p) ∪ L(ζ,p) of S ∈ X*
6.5 Non-Simply Minimal Rambling Sets of S ∈ X* and Proofs of Theorem 6.1.1 and 6.1.2
6.6 On the Sets R(ζ,P) and L(ζ,p)
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Chapter 7 Standard Systems of Differential Equations and Obstruction Sets with Applications to Structural Stability Problems
7.1 Global Linearization of Differential Systems and Expression by Linear Systems
7.2 Standard Systems of Equations
7.3 A Reduction to Lower Dimension by 1
7.4 Examples of Applications
7.5 The Family X* of Differential Systems
7.6 Obstruction Sets
7.7 Simple and Non-Simple Minimal Rambling Sets
7.8 Ω-Stability and Structural Stability
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Chapter 8 On Characterizations of Structural Stability
8.1 Introduction
8.2 Preliminaries. Obstruction Sets and Minimal Rambling Sets
8.3 A Key Step
8.4 Applications
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Appendix to the Chinese Edition
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Supplement (October 1990)
Appendix A An Extension of the C1 Closing Lemma
A.1 Introduction
A.2 An Abstract of the Proof
A.3 Some Preliminaries
A.4 The Family of Squared Matrices θ(t) (0 ≤ t ＜ ∞o)
A.5 The Proof of Theorem I
A.6 The Proof of Theorem II
A.7 Standard Systems of Differential Equations
A.8 The Proof of the Main Theorem
A.9 The Case that ωa ∪ αa is Non-empty
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Appendix B Obstruction Sets, Minimal Rambling Sets and Their Applications
B.1 Obstruction Sets
B.2 Relations between Obstruction Sets and Transversality Conditions
B.3 A Filtration for Normal Sets
B.4 Minimal Rambling Sets
B.5 The Families X**(Mn) and X(Mn)
B.6 On Stability of Differential Systems
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Editor's Postscripts