Olga Pochinka

B. Pecherskaya 25, Nizhny Novgorod, 603105 Russia
Higher School of Economics
Publications:
Medvedev T. V., Nozdrinova E. V., Pochinka O. V.
Components of Stable Isotopy Connectedness of Morse – Smale Diffeomorphisms
2022, vol. 27, no. 1, pp. 77-97
Abstract
In 1976 S.Newhouse, J.Palis and F.Takens introduced a stable arc joining two
structurally stable systems on a manifold. Later in 1983 they proved that all points of a regular
stable arc are structurally stable diffeomorphisms except for a finite number of bifurcation
diffeomorphisms which have no cycles, no heteroclinic tangencies and which have a unique
nonhyperbolic periodic orbit, this orbit being the orbit of a noncritical saddle-node or a flip
which unfolds generically on the arc. There are examples of Morse – Smale diffeomorphisms
on manifolds of any dimension which cannot be joined by a stable arc. There naturally
arises the problem of finding an invariant defining the equivalence classes of Morse – Smale
diffeomorphisms with respect to connectedness by a stable arc. In the present review we present
the classification results for Morse – Smale diffeomorphisms with respect to stable isotopic
connectedness and obstructions to existence of stable arcs including the authors’ recent results.
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Pochinka O. V., Zinina S. K.
Construction of the Morse – Bott Energy Function for Regular Topological Flows
2021, vol. 26, no. 4, pp. 350-369
Abstract
In this paper, we consider regular topological flows on closed $n$-manifolds. Such
flows have a hyperbolic (in the topological sense) chain recurrent set consisting of a finite number
of fixed points and periodic orbits. The class of such flows includes, for example, Morse – Smale
flows, which are closely related to the topology of the supporting manifold. This connection is
provided by the existence of the Morse – Bott energy function for the Morse – Smale flows. It
is well known that, starting from dimension 4, there exist nonsmoothing topological manifolds,
on which dynamical systems can be considered only in a continuous category. The existence of
continuous analogs of regular flows on any topological manifolds is an open question, as is the
existence of energy functions for such flows. In this paper, we study the dynamics of regular
topological flows, investigate the topology of the embedding and the asymptotic behavior of
invariant manifolds of fixed points and periodic orbits. The main result is the construction of
the Morse – Bott energy function for such flows, which ensures their close connection with the
topology of the ambient manifold.
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Kruglov V., Malyshev D. S., Pochinka O. V., Shubin D.
On Topological Classification of Gradient-like Flows on an $n$-sphere in the Sense of Topological Conjugacy
2020, vol. 25, no. 6, pp. 716-728
Abstract
In this paper, we study gradient-like flows without heteroclinic intersections on an
$n$-sphere up to topological conjugacy. We prove that such a flow is completely defined by a
bicolor tree corresponding to a skeleton formed by codimension one separatrices. Moreover, we
show that such a tree is a complete invariant for these flows with respect to the topological
equivalence also. This result implies that for these flows with the same (up to a change
of coordinates) partitions into trajectories, the partitions for elements, composing isotopies
connecting time-one shifts of these flows with the identity map, also coincide. This phenomenon
strongly contrasts with the situation for flows with periodic orbits and connections, where
one class of equivalence contains continuum classes of conjugacy. In addition, we realize every
connected bicolor tree by a gradient-like flow without heteroclinic intersections on the $n$-sphere.
In addition, we present a linear-time algorithm on the number of vertices for distinguishing these
trees.
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Grines V. Z., Gurevich E. Y., Pochinka O. V.
On the Number of Heteroclinic Curves of Diffeomorphisms with Surface Dynamics
2017, vol. 22, no. 2, pp. 122-135
Abstract
Separators are fundamental plasma physics objects that play an important role in many astrophysical phenomena. Looking for separators and their number is one of the first steps in studying the topology of the magnetic field in the solar corona. In the language of dynamical
systems, separators are noncompact heteroclinic curves. In this paper we give an exact lower estimation of the number of noncompact heteroclinic curves for a 3-diffeomorphism with the so-called “surface dynamics”. Also, we prove that ambient manifolds for such diffeomorphisms are mapping tori.
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Grines V. Z., Malyshev D. S., Pochinka O. V., Zinina S. K.
Efficient Algorithms for the Recognition of Topologically Conjugate Gradient-like Diffeomorhisms
2016, vol. 21, no. 2, pp. 189-203
Abstract
It is well known that the topological classification of structurally stable flows on surfaces as well as the topological classification of some multidimensional gradient-like systems can be reduced to a combinatorial problem of distinguishing graphs up to isomorphism. The isomorphism problem of general graphs obviously can be solved by a standard enumeration algorithm. However, an efficient algorithm (i. e., polynomial in the number of vertices) has not yet been developed for it, and the problem has not been proved to be intractable (i. e., NPcomplete). We give polynomial-time algorithms for recognition of the corresponding graphs for two gradient-like systems. Moreover, we present efficient algorithms for determining the orientability and the genus of the ambient surface. This result, in particular, sheds light on the classification of configurations that arise from simple, point-source potential-field models in efforts to determine the nature of the quiet-Sun magnetic field.
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Grines V. Z., Levchenko Y. A., Medvedev V. S., Pochinka O. V.
On the Dynamical Coherence of Structurally Stable 3-diffeomorphisms
2014, vol. 19, no. 4, pp. 506-512
Abstract
We prove that each structurally stable diffeomorphism $f$ on a closed 3-manifold $M^3$ with a two-dimensional surface nonwandering set is topologically conjugated to some model dynamically coherent diffeomorphism.
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Grines V. Z., Pochinka O. V.
Energy functions for dynamical systems
2010, vol. 15, no. 2-3, pp. 185-193
Abstract
The paper contains exposition of results devoted to the existence of an energy functions for dynamical systems.
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