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We construct an example of a C 1-smooth real function of two variables whose gradient range is an arc with no tangent at any point.
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Original Russian Text Copyright © 2008 Korobkov M. V.
The author was partially supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (Grant 05-01-00482-a), the Russian Science Support Foundation for the Young Candidates of Sciences, and the Lavrent’ev Young Scientists Competition (No. 5).
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Translated from Sibirskiĭ Matematicheskiĭ Zhurnal, Vol. 49, No. 1, pp. 134–144, January–February, 2008.
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Korobkov, M.V. An example of a C 1-smooth function whose gradient range is an arc with no tangent at any point. Sib Math J 49, 109–116 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11202-008-0010-3
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