The minimal number of critical points of a smooth function on a closed manifold and the ball category

DOI10.1090/TRAN/9047arXiv2208.09939MaRDI QIDQ6138030FDOQ6138030

Rustam Sadykov, Stanislav A. Trunov

Publication date: 16 January 2024

Published in: Transactions of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We show that the minimal number of critical points of a function on a given closed manifold M of dimension at least 6 is the same as the minimal number of elements in a Singhof-Takens filling of M by smooth balls with corners.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.09939

zbMATH Keywords

fillingcritical pointscylindrical neighborhood

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Critical points and critical submanifolds in differential topology (57R70) Lyusternik-Shnirel'man category of a space, topological complexity à la Farber, topological robotics (topological aspects) (55M30)

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