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On Functions Whose All Critical Points Are Contained in a Ball
P. E. Pushkar' Independent University of Moscow
Abstract:
In the present note, we answer the following question posed by Arnold. Consider a function with finitely many critical points on a compact connected manifold without boundary. Suppose that a ball embedded in the manifold contains all critical points of the function. Is it possible to reconstruct the manifold by a restriction of the function to the ball? It turns out that one can reconstruct only the Euler characteristic of the manifold.
Keywords:
Morse function, gradient-like vector field.
Received: 30.04.2002
Citation:
P. E. Pushkar', “On Functions Whose All Critical Points Are Contained in a Ball”, Funktsional. Anal. i Prilozhen., 36:4 (2002), 80–83; Funct. Anal. Appl., 36:4 (2002), 321–323
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https://www.mathnet.ru/eng/faa224https://doi.org/10.4213/faa224 https://www.mathnet.ru/eng/faa/v36/i4/p80
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