Morse theory without non-degeneracy

DOI10.1093/QMATH/HAAA064MaRDI QIDQ4956656zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Geoffrey R. Penington, Frances Kirwan

Publication date 2 September 2021

Published in The Quarterly Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.10804

zbMATH Keywords

Morse theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Abstract critical point theory (Morse theory, Lyusternik-Shnirel'man theory, etc.) in infinite-dimensional spaces (58E05)

Abstract: We describe an extension of Morse theory to smooth functions on compact Riemannian manifolds, without any nondegeneracy assumptions except that the critical locus must have only finitely many connected components.

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