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Existence of common zeros for commuting vector fields on three manifolds

Existence de zéros communs pour les champs de vecteurs qui commutent sur les 3-variétés

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In 1964, E. Lima proved that commuting vector fields on surfaces with non-zero Euler characteristic have common zeros. Such statement is empty in dimension 3, since all the Euler characteristics vanish. Nevertheless, C. Bonatti proposed in 1992 a local version, replacing the Euler characteristic by the Poincaré–Hopf index of a vector field $X$ in a region $U$, denoted by $ \operatorname{Ind}(X,U)$; he asked: Given commuting vector fields $X,Y$ and a region $U$ where $ \operatorname{Ind}(X,U)\neq 0$ does $U$ contain a common zero of $X$ and $Y$? A positive answer was given in the case where $X$ and $Y$ are real analytic, in the same article where the above question was posed. In this paper, we prove the existence of common zeros for commuting $C^1$ vector fields $X, Y$ on a 3-manifold, in any region $U$ such that $\operatorname{Ind}(X,U)\neq 0$ assuming that the set of collinearity of $X$ and $Y$ is contained in a smooth surface. This is a strong indication that the results for analytic vector fields should hold in the $C^1$ setting.

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hal-01661895 , version 1 (12-12-2017)

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Christian Bonatti, Bruno Santiago. Existence of common zeros for commuting vector fields on three manifolds. Annales de l'Institut Fourier, 2017, 67 (4), pp.1741 - 1781. ⟨10.5802/aif.3121⟩. ⟨hal-01661895⟩
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