The no-all-Möbius periodic-orbit suspension conjecture

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Let FF be a CkC^k vector field on S3S^3, with k3k\geq 3. Let Λ\Lambda be a compact connected invariant set and SS a cross-section for Λ\Lambda such that the first-return map h:SSh:S\to S is continuous on SΛS\cap\Lambda, has infinitely many periodic points there, and its dynamics on SΛS\cap\Lambda factors through a subshift of finite type. No-all-Möbius suspension conjecture. There is no such vector field for which every periodic orbit TΛT\subseteq\Lambda satisfies i(T)=0i(T)=0. The conjecture is motivated by orientation constraints on flows on S3S^3 and the expectation that a symbolic hyperbolic-type invariant set cannot have all suspension periodic orbits of index zero; the source states that it is unresolved.

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Eran Igra, “Essential dynamics in chaotic attractors”, arXiv:2411.08571 (2025).

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