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Champs de vecteurs analytiques et champs de gradients

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2002

JEAN-MARIE LION
Affiliation:
IRMAR, Université de Rennes I, 35042 Rennes cedex, France (e-mail: [email protected])
ROBERT MOUSSU
Affiliation:
Laboratoire de Topologie, Université de Bourgogne, BP47870, 21078 Dijon cedex, France (e-mail: [email protected])
FERNANDO SANZ
Affiliation:
Departement de Algebre, Geometrie y Topologie, Université de Valladolid, 47005 Valladolid, España (e-mail: [email protected])

Abstract

A theorem of Łojasiewicz asserts that any relatively compact solution of a real analytic gradient vector field has finite length. We show here a generalization of this result for relatively compact solutions of an analytic vector field X with a smooth invariant hypersurface, transversally hyperbolic for X, where the restriction of the field is a gradient. This solves some instances of R. Thom's Gradient Conjecture. Furthermore, if the dimension of the ambient space is three, these solutions do not oscillate (in the sense that they cut an analytic set only finitely many times); this can also be applied to some gradient vector fields.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
2002 Cambridge University Press

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