%0 Journal Article %A Sánchez Gabites, Jaime Jorge %A Rodríguez Sanjurjo, José Manuel %T Shape properties of the boundary of attractors %D 2007 %@ 0017-095X %U https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/50706 %X A compact stable attractor K of a continuous flow on a locally compact metric space is shape equivalent to a compact positively invariant neighbourhood P in its basin of attraction, the shape equivalence being induced by the inclusion map. In the present article a simple counterexample is given to show that ∂K is in general not shape equivalent to ∂P , and an inquiry is set afoot as to the circumstances under which ∂K is shape equivalent to or shape dominates ∂P . %~