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Morse decompositions and connection matrices

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 December 2009

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This paper surveys the work of Charles Conley and his students on Morse decompositions for flows on compact metric spaces, as well as the more recent development of the connection matrix formalism for detecting connections between the Morse sets of a Morse decomposition.

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Research Article
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Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems , Volume 8 , Volume 8: Charles Conley Memorial Issue , December 1988 , pp. 227 - 249
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1988

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