<#1372#><I><#465#></I>Let <I>S</I> be an isolated invariant set with isolating neighborhood <I>N</I>.
An <#283#><EM>index pair</EM><#283#> for <I>S</I> is a pair of compact sets <tex2html_verbatim_mark>#math45#(<I>N</I><SUB>1</SUB>, <I>N</I><SUB>0</SUB>)
with <tex2html_verbatim_mark>#math46#<I>N</I><SUB>0</SUB>⊂<I>N</I><SUB>1</SUB>⊂<I>N</I> such that: