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Some examples of minimally degenerate Morse functions
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 January 2009
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Let X be a compact Riemannian manifold. If f:X→ℝ is a nondegenerate Morse function in the sense of Bott [2] then one has Morse inequalities which can be expressed in the form
where Pt(X) is the Poincaré polynomial Σtidim Hi(X;ℚ of X ann {Cβ|β ∈B} are the connected components of the set of critical points for f For any polynomial Q(t)∈ℤ[t] we write Q(t)≧0 if all the coefficients of Q are nonnegative.
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