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STEPHEN SCHECTER and MICHAEL F. SINGER (Acta Math., 145 (1980), 47-78)

Professor M. E. Sagalovich has kindly provided us a detailed explanation of his examples, published in [2], of singular points of degree d, d~>3, with 4 d - 2 separatrices.

We had been aware of these examples, but had erroneously concluded that they had fewer separatrices. These examples show that Theorem 3.13 of [3], which asserts that a singular point of degree d, d~>3, can have at most 4 d - 4 separatrices, is wrong. The correct bound is 4 d - 2 , as had already been proved by Sagalovich in [1].

The error in our proof occurs at the bottom of p. 75. Under discussion there are Dumortier pictures in which the singularities on F, the homeomorph of S ~ that represents the original singularity, are (1) two saddles, each of which has two of its separatrices lying within F; (2) some corners; (3) singularities resulting from the blow- up of a single special singularity. See [3] for definitions; also see Figure 18 of [3]. In our argument we implicitly assume that each of the two arcs into which F is divided by the two saddles must contain a subarc resulting from the blow-up of the special singularity.

This is the case in Figure 18 of [3], but it need not be true. It is not true in Sagalovich's examples.

Our argument for Theorem 3.13 in fact demonstrates the following: Suppose a singularity o f degree d has 4 d - 2 separatrices. Then its tree ~r has a subtree ~r,, whose terminal vertices are (1) one vertex WI, also terminal in ~r, that represents two saddles in the Dumortier picture, each o f which has two separatrices lying within F; (2) some corners, also terminal in if, whose separatrices lie within F; (3) degree one saddles V! .... , Vd-l, the successors o f a single nonterminal special vertex V. (As remarked on p. 75 of [3], Vs ... Vd-s need not be terminal in if. In Sagalovich's examples, they are not.) In the Dumortier picture associated with ~r,,, one o f the two arcs into which F is divided by the two saddles corresponding to WI does not contain a subarc resulting from the blow-up o f V.

1 9 t - 838286 Acta Mathematica 15 I. lmprim~ le 28 Decembr~, 1983

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298 s. SCHECTER AND M. F. SINGER

References

[1] SAGALOVICH, M. E., Topological structure of the neighborhood o f a critical point o f a differential equation. Differential Equations, 11 (1975), 1498-1503.

[2] - - Classes of local topological structures o f an equilibrium state. Differential Equations, 15 (1979), 253-255.

[3] SCHECTER, S. & SINGER, M. F., Separatrices at singular points of planar vector fields. Acta Math., 145 (1980), 47-78.

Received September 1, 1982

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