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Stability of certain second order ODE
I am having a hard time determining the motion of $X$ in the ODE $X''+\nabla f(X)=0$ with initial conditions arbitrary $X(0)$ and zero velocity, i.e. $X'(0) = 0$. $X$ is in $\mathbb{R}^{n}$, and $f$ ...