A Short Proof that Minimal Sets of Planar Ordinary Differential Equations are Trivial

2013/09/12 by Ido Bright, Bright, Ido
Engineering · Mathematics · #Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA) #Control and Stability of Dynamical Systems #Dynamical Systems (math.DS) #FOS: Mathematics #Numerical methods for differential equations

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1309.3294

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Abstract

We present a short proof, relaying on the divergence theorem, verifying that minimal sets in the plane are trivial.

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