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Is it likely that gradient flow trajectories of a $G$-invariant function pass through degenerate points?

This question may be posed somewhat vaguely, but I'm interested to actually get an idea of what to expect, so I try to not target it at a specific result. Assume that $G$ is a compact Lie group, ...
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The negative gradient flow of a Morse-Bott function on a compact manifold converges to a critical point?

Let $(M, g)$ be a compact Riemannian manifold and $f: M \rightarrow \mathbb{R}$ be a Morse-Bott function, i.e. the set a critical points of $f$, $Crit(f)$, has connected components which are smooth ...