On Embedding of Multidimensional Morse-Smale Diffeomorphisms in Topological Flows

Abstract

J.~Palis found necessary conditions for a Morse-Smale diffeomorphism on a closed $n$-dimensional manifold $M^n$ to embed into a topological flow and proved that these conditions are also sufficient for $n=2$. For the case $n=3$ a possibility of wild embedding of closures of separatrices of saddles is an additional obstacle for Morse-Smale cascades to embed into topological flows. In this paper we show that there are no such obstructions for Morse-Smale diffeomorphisms without heteroclinic intersection given on the sphere $S^n,n\ge 4$, and Palis's conditions again are sufficient for such diffeomorphisms.