58 Chapter II. Invariant manifolds of hyperbolic fixed points
of Theorem II.3 possessing the origin as a hyperbolic fixed point. Fix ı>0and
let B
r
be the closed ball centered at 0 with radius r. According to the assumption,
O'.0/ D 0 and O'
0
.0/ D 0, where O'
0
denotes the derivative d O'. Since O'
0
is continuous,
we can choose the radius r D r.ı/>0so small that jO'
0
.x/j <ıon B
r
. Then, the
map O' is Lipschitz-continuous on B
r
and has a Lipschitz constant <ı.Wenow
modify the given diffeomorphism outside of B
r
in such a way that the modified
map meets the assumptions of the technical Theorem II.4. For this purpose, we
take the map f introduced in Lemma II.6 and define the map ˆ by
ˆ.x/ ´ Ax C
y
ˆ.x/ ´ Ax CO'.f .x//; x 2 R
n
:
Thus, ˆ D ' on B
r
and
y
ˆ is, according to the above lemma, Lipschitz-continuous
with a Lipschitz constant <2ı. Since O' is bounded on B
r
, we also have j
y
ˆj
1
< 1.
Finally we can apply Theorem II.4 (in this theorem we take A instead of ' and
ˆ instead of ). If ">0is the smallness constant occurring in Theorem II.4,we
choose ı>0so small that 2ı < ". Then Theorem II.4 guarantees a homeomor-
phism h satisfying h.0/ D 0 and solving the functional equation h Bˆ D A Bh.By
choosing U B
r
and introducing V ´ h.U / and restricting h on U , we conclude
that h B' D A Bh on U \ '
1
.U /, as claimed in the theorem. This completes the
proof of the theorem of Hartman–Grobman.
II.2 Local invariant manifolds
Having looked at the behavior of orbits near the unstable fixed point from a topo-
logical point of view, we shall look at it next from a differentiable point of view and
come back to the diffeomorphism ' W R
n
! R
n
of class C
k
, for k 1 possessing
the hyperbolic fixed point 0 D '.0/, so that it is of the form
'.x/ D Ax C g.x/;
where g is a function satisfying g.0/ D 0, g
0
.0/ D 0 and where A 2 L.R
n
/ is the
linearized map having the representation
A D
A
C
0
0A
with respect to E
C
˚ E
D R
n
and satisfying kA
C
k˛ and kA
1
k˛ for a constant 0<˛<1.
Definition. For the neighborhood Q of the fixed point 0, defined by
Q ´fx D .x
C
;x
/ 2 E
C
˚ E
jjx
C
jr; jx
jrg;
r>0, the local invariant manifolds of the fixed point 0 are defined as the sets
W
C
loc
.Q/ ´fx 2 Q j '
j
.x/ 2 Q for all j 0g;
W
loc
.Q/ ´fx 2 Q j '
j
.x/ 2 Q for all j 0g: