On the Partial Hyperbolicity of Robustly Transitive Sets with Singularities

Abstract

Homoclinic tangencies and singular hyperbolicity are involved in the Palis conjecture for vector fields. Typical three dimensional vector fields are well understood by recent works. We study the dynamics of higher dimensional vector fields that are away from homoclinic tangencies. More precisely, we prove that for any dimensional vector field that is away from homoclinic tangencies, all singularities contained in its robustly transitive singular set are all hyperbolic and have the same index. Moreover, the robustly transitive set is $$C^1$$ -generically partially hyperbolic if the vector field cannot be accumulated by ones with a homoclinic tangency.