Bowen-type saddle-connection conjecture for vector fields

Let MM be a manifold, let PxTP_x^T denote the linear Poincare flow along the trajectory of a vector field GG, and suppose that for an open, dense, full-Lebesgue-measure subset of MM one has

lim infT1Tln(PxT)1<0\liminf_{T\to\infty}\frac{1}{T}\ln\|(P_x^T)^{-1}\|<0

and

lim infT1TlnPxT<0.\liminf_{T\to\infty}\frac{1}{T}\ln\|P_x^T\|<0.

Bowen-type saddle-connection conjecture. Then GG exhibits saddle connections similar to the saddle connections in Example 1.

The claim is motivated by the Bowen example and predicts a characteristic saddle-connection configuration under simultaneous forward and inverse contraction on a large set; it remains unresolved in the supplied text.

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Primary source

Vitor Araujo, “Sinks and sources for C1 dynamics whose Lyapunov exponents have constant sign”, arXiv:1806.05245 (2020).

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