Topological classification of Morse polynomials

DOI10.1134/S0081543810010049MaRDI QIDQ600710zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Vładimir I. Arnold

Publication date 1 November 2010

Published in Proceedings of the Steklov Institute of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1134/s0081543810010049

zbMATH Keywords

Morse functionpolynomials of degree 4topological classifications

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General low-dimensional topology (57M99) Differentiable mappings in differential topology (57R35) 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

At present, there is no known general topological classification of polynomials of low degree in two real variables, despite of the obvious connections to Hilbert's 16-th problem. The classification problem for polynomials in two variables is closely related to the problem of topological classification of smooth functions \(f: S^2\to \mathbb R\) on the sphere. In the paper under review the author discusses the topological classification of polynomials of degree 4 in two variables having non-degenerate critical points and distinct critical values. The author proves that out of 17746 topological types of smooth Morse functions \(f: S^2\to \mathbb R\) with the same number of critical points, at most 426 types can be realised by polynomials of degree \(4\).

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