The Morse critical groups of the minmax theorem

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Authors Xue-Feng Yang

Publication date 1991

Published in Chinese Annals of Mathematics. Series B (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

critical pointdeformation lemmaHilbert manifoldminimax theorem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Existence of solutions for minimax problems (49J35) Algebraic topology on manifolds and differential topology (57R19) Abstract critical point theory (Morse theory, Lyusternik-Shnirel'man theory, etc.) in infinite-dimensional spaces (58E05)

Review text

The author proves a new minimax theorem based on a general homology link which includes previously studied significant cases. Subsequently, one obtains other topological results among them being the Jordan-Brouwer Separation Theorem on an infinite dimensional sphere.

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