Thom's conjecture on singularities of gradient vector fields

DOI10.2996/KMJ/1138039532MaRDI QIDQ1198475zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Fumio Ichikawa

Publication date 16 January 1993

Published in Kodai Mathematical Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL http://hdl.handle.net/2433/82270

zbMATH Keywords

gradient vector fieldintegral curvereal analytic functionsingularitiesThom conjecture

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Real algebraic and real-analytic geometry (14P99) Topological structure of integral curves, singular points, limit cycles of ordinary differential equations (34C05) Local and nonlocal bifurcation theory for dynamical systems (37G99)

Review text

A partial answer to the following Thom conjecture is given: let \(f(x)\) be a germ of real analytic function at the origin \(0\in\mathbb{R}^ n\) and let \(X=\text{grad} f(x)\) be the gradient vector field of \(f(x)\). If an integral curve \(g(t)\) of \(X\) tends to the origin \(0\in\mathbb{R}^ n\), then there exists a unique tangential direction \(\lim_{t\to\infty} g(t)/| g(t)|\). The author proves that if \(f(x)=P_ k(x)+P_{k+1}(x)+\dots\), \(P_ k\neq 0\), where \(P_ j(x)\) are homogeneous polynomial of degree \(i\) and \(\dim Sp(P_ k)\leq 1\) (where \(Sp(P_ k)=\{x=(x_ 1,\dots,x_ n)\in\mathbb{R}^ n\): \(x_ i{\partial P_ k \over \partial x_ j} = x_ j{\partial P_ k \over \partial x_ i}\), \(i,j=1,\dots,n\}\), is a cone algebraic set containing 0), then the Thom's conjecture holds. As a corollary he shows that the Thom's conjecture holds in the two- dimensional case.

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