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Robert Bryant
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No. Consider the case of an ellipsoid with three distinct axes, and remove the four umbilic points. Then you cannot find such vector fields on a (punctured) neighborhood of the deleted umbilics. Have a look at this reference on umbilics and try drawing the vector field on such a punctured neighborhood, and you'll see why.

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