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that, under some regularity conditions, any vector field can be expressed as the sum of a conservative vector field and a solenoidal field.

Path independence and conservative vector field

Path independence

A line integral of a vector field is said to be path-independent if it depends on only two integral path endpoints regardless of which path between them is chosen:

for any pair of integral paths and between a given pair of path endpoints in .

The path

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