%0 Journal Article %J Journal of dynamical and control systems %D 2012 %T On a class of vector fields with discontinuity of divide-by-zero type and its applications %A Roberta Ghezzi %A Alexey O. Remizov %X

We study phase portraits and singular points of vector fields of a special type, that is, vector fields whose components are fractions with a common denominator vanishing on a smooth regular hypersurface in the phase space. We assume also some additional conditions, which are fulfilled, for instance, if the vector field is divergence-free. This problem is motivated by a large number of applications. In this paper, we consider three of them in the framework of differential geometry: singularities of geodesic flows in various singular metrics on surfaces.

%B Journal of dynamical and control systems %I Springer %V 18 %P 135-158 %G en %N 1 %1 7038 %2 Mathematics %4 -1 %$ Submitted by Maria Pia Calandra (calapia@sissa.it) on 2013-08-14T09:32:26Z No. of bitstreams: 1 1007.0912v1.pdf: 311033 bytes, checksum: 66a06c5e2764120aa6d9ac971a82baab (MD5) %R 10.1007/s10883-012-9137-4