A proof of Morse's theorem about the cancellation of critical points

DOI10.1016/J.CRMA.2013.06.009MaRDI QIDQ367197zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors François Laudenbach

Publication date 26 September 2013

Published in Comptes Rendus. Mathématique. Académie des Sciences, Paris (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1307.2545, http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1631073X13001477

zbMATH Keywords

cancellationMorse functionpseudo-gradient

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)

Abstract: In this note, we give a proof of the famous theorem of M. Morse dealing with the cancellation of a pair of non-degenerate critical points of a smooth function. Our proof consists of a reduction to the one-dimensional case where the question becomes easy to answer.

Recommendations

• Morse theory without non-degeneracy
• Functions with nondegenerate critical points on the boundary of the surface
• Degenerate critical points, homotopy indices and morse inequalities III
• The generalized Morse-Sard theorem
• Morse homology and degenerate Morse inequalities

Cites work

• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3256333 (Why is no real title available?)
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3258063 (Why is no real title available?)
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3052530 (Why is no real title available?)
• Energy Functions for Morse Smale Systems
• Generalized Poincaré's conjecture in dimensions greater than four
• On gradient dynamical systems
• On the Volume Elements on a Manifold
• THE BOWL THEOREM AND A MODEL NONDEGENERATE FUNCTION
• The existence of polar non-degenerate functions on differentiable manifolds

Cited in

(4)

• Morse theory on Branach space and its applications to partial differential equations
• About the diffeomorphisms of the 3-sphere and a famous theorem of Cerf (_4=0)
• Elimination of extremal index zeroes from generic paths of closed 1-forms
• A proof of Reidemeister-Singer's theorem by Cerf's methods

This page was built for publication: A proof of Morse's theorem about the cancellation of critical points

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q367197)