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A proof of Morse's theorem about the cancellation of critical points

Geometric Topology 2013-07-10 v1

Abstract

In this note, we give a proof of the famous theorem of M. Morse dealing with the cancellation of a pair of non-degenerate critical points of a smooth function. Our proof consists of a reduction to the one-dimensional case where the question becomes easy to answer.

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@article{arxiv.1307.2545,
  title  = {A proof of Morse's theorem about the cancellation of critical points},
  author = {Francois Laudenbach},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1307.2545},
  year   = {2013}
}