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

DOI10.1090/TRAN/9047MaRDI QIDQ6138030zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Rustam Sadykov, Stanislav A. Trunov

Publication date 16 January 2024

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

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)

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.

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