The disk obstruction conjecture for traversing boundary concave vector fields

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Let Dn+1D^{n+1} be the standard (n+1)(n+1)-disk, and call a vector field traversing if all of its trajectories are appropriately traversing, with no closed trajectories. A vector field is boundary concave when its boundary tangencies have the concave orientation described in the paper.

Disk obstruction conjecture. The standard (n+1)(n+1)-disk Dn+1D^{n+1} does not admit a traversing boundary concave vector field.

This conjecture extends the observed obstruction for the 22-disk, contrasting with the existence of boundary generic concave non-vanishing fields on D3D^3 that are not traversing. Its status is not resolved in the supplied text.

References

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Gabriel Katz, “Stratified convexity & concavity of gradient flows on manifolds with boundary”, arXiv:1406.6907 (2014).

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