Regular level sets of Lyapunov graphs of nonsingular Smale flows on 3-manifolds

Abstract

In this paper, we first discuss the regular level set of a nonsingular Smale flow (NSF) on a 3-manifold. The main result about this topic is that a 3-manifold $M$ admits an NSF flow which has a regular level set homeomorphic to $(n+1)T^2$ $(n\in \mathbb{Z},n\ge 0)$ if and only if $M=M^{\prime }♯n{S}^1\times S^2$. Then we discuss how to realize a template as a basic set of an NSF on a 3-manifold. We focus on the connection between the genus of the template $T$ and the topological structure of the realizing 3-manifold $M$.

arXiv comment14 pages, 9 figures