Kuperberg, Krystyna A smooth counterexample to the Seifert conjecture. (English) Zbl 0856.57024 Ann. Math. (2) 140, No. 3, 723-732 (1994). Developing an ingenious construction of a \(C^\infty\) aperiodic plug in dimension three, the author offers a counterexample to the Seifert conjecture: every nonsingular continuous vector field on \(S^3\) has a closed integral curve. In fact the answer of the author is the following (Theorem 5.1): There exists on \(S^3\) a \(C^\infty\) dynamical system with no compact orbits. Reviewer: I.D.Albu (Timişoara) Cited in 3 ReviewsCited in 34 Documents MSC: 57R25 Vector fields, frame fields in differential topology Keywords:flow; mirror-image plus; Wilson-type plug; self-insertions; aperiodic plug; Seifert conjecture; dynamical system; compact orbits × Cite Format Result Cite Review PDF Full Text: DOI