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

DOI10.1016/J.CRMA.2013.06.009zbMATH Open1279.57023arXiv1307.2545OpenAlexW2947247555MaRDI QIDQ367197FDOQ367197

François Laudenbach

Publication date: 26 September 2013

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

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.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1307.2545

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)

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