Solution

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For , the partial derivatives and give
Adding these partial derivatives yields the divergence:
The original vector field is undefined at the origin. Since , it has the continuous extension . This extension is not differentiable: on its first component is , whose derivative at zero does not exist. Thus the displayed divergence has no classical value at the origin.

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