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The Sub-Index of Critical Points of Distance Functions

Differential Geometry 2015-09-24 v3

Abstract

We define a new notion---the sub-index of a critical point of a distance function. We show how sub-index affects the homotopy type of sublevel sets of distance functions.

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@article{arxiv.1409.0132,
  title  = {The Sub-Index of Critical Points of Distance Functions},
  author = {Barbara Herzog and Frederick Wilhelm},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1409.0132},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

We corrected a mistake in the proof of Theorem 3.2