Smooth Morse-Lyapunov Functions and Morse Theory of Strong Attractors for Nonsmooth Dynamical Systems

In this paper we first construct smooth Morse-Lyapunov functions of attractors for nonsmooth dynamical systems. Then we prove that all open attractor neighborhoods of an attractor have the same homotopy type. Based on this basic fact we finally introduce the concept of critical group for Morse sets of an attractor and establish Morse inequalities and equations.