Nonautonomous vector fields on $$S^3$$: Simple dynamics and wild embedding of separatrices

Abstract

We construct new substantive examples of non-autonomous vector fields on 3-dimensional sphere having a simple dynamics but non-trivial topology. The construction is based on two ideas: the theory of diffeomorpisms with wild separatrix embedding (Pixton, Bonatti-Grines, etc.) and the construction of a non-autonomous suspension over a diffeomorpism (Lerman-Vainshtein). As a result, we get periodic, almost periodic or even nonrecurrent vector fields which have a finite number of special integral curves possessing exponential dichotomy on $\R$ such that among them there is one saddle integral curve (with an exponential dichotomy of the type (3,2)) having wildly embedded two-dimensional unstable separatrix and wildly embedded three-dimensional stable manifold. All other integral curves tend, as $t\to \pm \infty,$ to these special integral curves. Also we construct another vector fields having $k\ge 2$ special saddle integral curves with tamely embedded two-dimensional unstable separatrices forming mildly wild frames in the sense of Debrunner-Fox. In the case of periodic vector fields, corresponding specific integral curves are periodic with the period of the vector field, and they are almost periodic for the case of almost periodic vector fields.