Polarization on a spherical electromagnetic wave in free space using classical electromagnetism

Question

The polarization of a plane wave traveling in free space is well defined and traverse to the direction of propagation from classical electromagnetic theory. Spherical waves are another type of frequently used solutions. However, I am finding it difficult to visualize how are the polarization vectors arranged over the spherical wavefront, referring to the hairy ball theorem.

Answer 1

A realistic antenna is a dipole. The dipole radiation has no field in the directions you would expect singularities from the hairy ball theorem.