On the level set of a function with degenerate minimum point

DOI10.1155/2015/493217MaRDI QIDQ1751374zbMATH OpenOpenAlexDBLPWikidataFDO

Authors Yasuhiko Kamiyama

Publication date 25 May 2018

Published in International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1155/2015/493217

zbMATH Keywords

Morse lemma

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Critical points and critical submanifolds in differential topology (57R70) Abstract critical point theory (Morse theory, Lyusternik-Shnirel'man theory, etc.) in infinite-dimensional spaces (58E05)

Review text

Summary: For \(n \geq 2\), let \(M\) be an \(n\)-dimensional smooth closed manifold and \(f : M \rightarrow \mathbb{R}\) a smooth function. We set \(\min f(M) = m\) and assume that \(m\) is attained by unique point \(p \in M\) such that \(p\) is a nondegenerate critical point. Then the Morse lemma tells us that if \(a\) is slightly bigger than \(m\), \(f^{- 1}(a)\) is diffeomorphic to \(S^{n - 1}\). In this paper, we relax the condition on \(p\) from being nondegenerate to being an isolated critical point and obtain the same consequence. Some application to the topology of polygon spaces is also included.

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