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The C*-algebras of Morse—Smale flows on two-manifolds

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 September 2008

Xiaolu Wang
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Department of Mathematics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA
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We give a classification of all the C*-algebras of Morse-Smale flows on closed two-manifolds, and determine the relation between the invariants of dynamical systems and the topological invariants of the C*-algebras.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1990

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