Consider a continuous flow on a locally compact, separable, metric space.If the set of nonperiodic recurrent points is nowhere dense, then there is an open, dense, invariant subset of the phase space which has a Hausdorff orbit space.A separatrix is defined to be a trajectory which is in the closure of the set of trajectories at which the orbit space is not Hausdorff.If the flow is completely unstable, then the set of points which lie on sparatrices is nowhere dense in the phase space.Introduction.Orbit spaces and their topological properties arise in a natural way when the trajectorial structure of a continuous flow is studied, e.g., in [2],[4], and [6].One of the fundamental concepts of trajectorial structure is that of a parallelizable flow.Parallelizable flows have been studied and characterized in [1], [2], and [7, 2.4].If the flow is parallelizable, then the natural mapping of the phase space onto the orbit space is the projection of a fiber bundle.One immediate consequence of parallelizability is that the orbit space is Hausdorff.If a flow on a locally compact, separable, metric space has a Hausdorff orbit space, then there is a natural generalization of the fiber bundle structure for parallelizable flows [6].Hence, flows with Hausdorff orbit spaces are a natural generalization of flows which are parallelizable.Flows with Hausdorff orbit spaces also arise in the study of completely unstable flows [4].Clearly, it is very restive to assume that a flow has a Hausdorff orbit space.In this paper we will show that if a flow on a locally compact, separable, metric space has a nowhere dense set of nonperiodic recurrent points, then there is an open, dense, invariant subset U of the phase space such that the orbit space with respect to U is Hausdorff.A separatrix is a trajectory which is in the closure of the set of trajectories at which the orbit space is not Hausdorff.In the case that the flow is completely unstable, we will show that the set of points which lie on sparatrices is nowhere dense in the phase-space.1. Basic definitions and properties of continuous flow.Throughout this paper X will be a locally compact, separable, metric space and R, R+ will denote the reals and nonnegative reals, respectively.A continuous flow tt on A-is a continuous mapping of X X R onto X
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