%0 Journal Article %A Hernández Corbato, Luis %A Nieves-Rivera, David Jesús %A Ruiz del Portal, Francisco R. %A Sánchez-Gabites, Jaime J. %T On the components of the unstable set of isolated invariant sets %D 2023 %@ 0166-8641 %U https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/72421 %X The aim of this note is to shed some light on the topological structure of the unstable set of an isolated invariant set K. We give a bound on the number of essential quasicomponents of the unstable set of K in terms of the homological Conley index of K. The proof relies on an explicit pairing between Čech homology classes and Alexander–Spanier cohomology classes that takes the form of an integral. %~