Holography & Homology Of Traversing Flows eBook

This monograph offers a compelling exploration of structures induced by smooth vector flows on the boundaries of compact manifolds, with a particular focus on flows that admit Lyapunov functions — strictly monotonic along each trajectory. These traversing flows reveal rich and intricate interactions between dynamics and geometry, especially at the manifold boundaries.

At the heart of this work lies a central theme: how trajectories interact with boundaries, and how these interactions shape and are shaped by the manifold's topology. This perspective opens a natural gateway to a wide array of mathematical disciplines, including Singularity Theory, Combinatorics, Differential and Contact Geometry, Differential Topology, and Dynamical Systems.

Written with a view toward both depth and interconnection, the monograph highlights the fundamental interplay between boundary value problems for ordinary differential equations and the topological structures they inhabit. Scholars and advanced students across geometry, topology, and dynamical systems will find in these pages a rich landscape of ideas and a fresh perspective on a classical subject.

Contents:

• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Holography of Traversing Flows:
  • Flows in 2D-land, their Holography and Combinatorics
  • Trivia About Vector Fields on Manifolds with Boundary
  • Causal Holography of Traversing Flows
  • Causal Holography in Application to the Inverse Scattering Problems and Billiards
• Homology of Traversing Flows:
  • Doodles and Blobs on a Ruled Page: Convex Quasi-envelops of Traversing Flows on Surfaces
  • Topology of Spaces of Polynomials with Constrained Real Zero Divisors
  • Spaces of Polynomials as Grassmanians for Immersions & Embeddings
  • Spaces of Polynomials as Grassmanians for Traversing Flows
• Bibliography

Readership: Researches and graduate students interested in the fields of Algebraic and Geometric Topology, Dynamical Systems and Ergodic Theory, and Combinatorics.