The disk obstruction conjecture for traversing boundary concave vector fields
Let be the standard -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 -disk does not admit a traversing boundary concave vector field.
This conjecture extends the observed obstruction for the -disk, contrasting with the existence of boundary generic concave non-vanishing fields on that are not traversing. Its status is not resolved in the supplied text.
References
Primary source
Gabriel Katz, “Stratified convexity & concavity of gradient flows on manifolds with boundary”, arXiv:1406.6907 (2014).
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