2503.23079
Finding Attracting Sets using Combinatorial Multivector Fields
Justin Thorpe, Thomas Wanner
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- Sep 28, 2025, 12:56 AM
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Audit review
The paper explicitly states that for a down set I the Morse interval MI is an attractor but provides no proof. The candidate solution reaches the same conclusion but contains gaps: it incorrectly asserts that every invariant set is V-compatible and assumes an essential solution through an arbitrary x in cl(MI) without justification. Thus, while the conclusion aligns with the paper’s claim, the provided argument is not fully rigorous, and the paper’s treatment is only a stated claim without proof (see the definitions of ΠV, attractor, connection sets, Morse intervals, and the stated attractor fact in the PDF).
Referee report (LaTeX)
\textbf{Recommendation:} minor revisions \textbf{Journal Tier:} specialist/solid \textbf{Justification:} The claim that down-set Morse intervals are attractors is standard and consistent with the framework presented, but the paper presents it without a proof. Adding a short proof or a precise citation to a theorem in the literature would make the exposition self-contained and remove potential ambiguity. The candidate proof aligns with standard ideas but includes logical gaps; a corrected, concise proof would be easy to include.