On the first integral conjecture of René Thom

DOI10.1016/J.BULSCI.2007.10.002zbMATH Open1151.37024arXiv0710.5021OpenAlexW2015035187WikidataQ123190149 ScholiaQ123190149MaRDI QIDQ950543FDOQ950543

Authors: Jacky Cresson, A. Daniilidis, Masahiro Shiota 

Publication date: 30 October 2008

Published in: Bulletin des Sciences Mathématiques (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: More that half a century ago R. Thom asserted in an unpublished manuscript that, generically, vector fields on compact connected smooth manifolds without boundary can admit only trivial continuous first integrals. Though somehow unprecise for what concerns the interpretation of the word extquotedblleft generically extquotedblright, this statement is ostensibly true and is nowadays commonly accepted. On the other hand, the (few) known formal proofs of Thom's conjecture are all relying to the classical Sard theorem and are thus requiring the technical assumption that first integrals should be of class $C^k$ with $kgeqd,$ where $d$ is the dimension of the manifold. In this work, using a recent nonsmooth extension of Sard theorem we establish the validity of Thom's conjecture for locally Lipschitz first integrals, interpreting genericity in the $C^1$ sense.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0710.5021

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zbMATH Keywords

first integralssmoothnessstructural stabilityvector fieldSard theorem\(o\)-minimal manifoldsmooth manifolds without boundaryThom's conjecture

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Generic properties, structural stability of dynamical systems (37C20)

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