On smooth maps with finitely many critical points

2001/06/30 by Dorin Andrica, Louis Funar
Mathematics · #math.GT #math.AT #math.DG #msc:20 #msc:32 #msc:57 #msc:10 #msc:58 #msc:05

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published as J. London Math.Soc. 69(2004), 783-800. · revised version, 15 pages, to appear J.London Math.Soc

arxiv created 2004/01/28 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30

Abstract

We compute the minimum number of critical points of a small codimension smooth map between two manifolds. We give as well some partial results for the case of higher codimension when the manifolds are spheres.

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