Singular gradient flow of the distance function and homotopy equivalence

DOI10.1007/s00208-012-0835-8zbMath1270.35012arXiv1109.5375OpenAlexW2963768418MaRDI QIDQ1952290

Carlo Sinestrari, Khai T. Nguyen, Paolo Albano, Piermarco Cannarsa

Publication date: 30 May 2013

Published in: Mathematische Annalen (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1109.5375

zbMATH Keywords

differential inclusiongeneralized characteristicgeneralized gradient flow

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonsmooth analysis (49J52) Homotopy equivalences in algebraic topology (55P10) Convexity of real functions of several variables, generalizations (26B25) Heat and other parabolic equation methods for PDEs on manifolds (58J35) Singularity in context of PDEs (35A21)

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