Subtleties of the minimax selector

DOI10.4171/LEM/59-3-1MaRDI QIDQ495201zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Qiaoling Wei

Publication date 9 September 2015

Published in L'Enseignement Mathématique. 2e Série (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1112.5272

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Index theory for dynamical systems, Morse-Conley indices (37B30) Abstract critical point theory (Morse theory, Lyusternik-Shnirel'man theory, etc.) in infinite-dimensional spaces (58E05)

Abstract: In this note, we show that the minmax and maxmin critical values of a function quadratic nondegenerate at infinity are equal when defined in homology or cohomology with coefficients in a field. However, by an example of F.Laudenbach, this is not always true for coefficients in a ring and, even in the case of a field, the minmax-maxmin depends on the field.

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