Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
4612745 Journal of Differential Equations 2009 41 Pages PDF
Abstract

In the paper I study the gradient field of a harmonic function f in R3 in a neighborhood of a critical point 0. I show that the flow of ∇f, as a mapping between level sets of f, is a stratified mapping – that gives, in our case, an answer to the problem of stratifying the space of orbits of the field ∇f posed by R. Thom. I also show that the trajectories of ∇f having 0 as a limit point satisfy the finiteness conjecture and have generalized tangents at 0.

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