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On the coercivity of continuously differentiable vector fields

Classical Analysis and ODEs 2020-04-15 v1 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

Given an arbitrary fixed continuously differentiable vector field on Rn\mathbb{R}^n, we prove that this vector field is coercive if and only if its conservative part is coercive. We apply this result in order to provide sufficient conditions to guarantee the co-existence of equilibrium states of a continuously differentiable vector field and its conservative part.

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@article{arxiv.1911.00256,
  title  = {On the coercivity of continuously differentiable vector fields},
  author = {Razvan M. Tudoran},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1911.00256},
  year   = {2020}
}

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4 pages

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