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Subtleties of the minmax selector

Symplectic Geometry 2011-12-23 v1

Abstract

In this note, we show that the minmax and maxmin critical values of a function quadratic nondegenerate at infinity are equal when defined in homology or cohomology with coefficients in a field. However, by an example of F.Laudenbach, this is not always true for coefficients in a ring and, even in the case of a field, the minmax-maxmin depends on the field.

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@article{arxiv.1112.5272,
  title  = {Subtleties of the minmax selector},
  author = {Wei Qiaoling},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1112.5272},
  year   = {2011}
}

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12 pages