Asymmetry in dynamics

Abstract: We shall initially discuss what symmetries mean in the context of dynamical systems of different flavors: complex analytic, Hamiltonian, or smooth. We shall then discuss progress towards a resolution of a conjecture of Smale: a generic smooth dynamical system has only trivial symmetries.

Mathematics

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