Differentiable mappings with an infinite number of critical points

Pintea, C.

doi:10.1090/S0002-9939-00-05392-2

Differentiable mappings with an infinite number of critical points
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Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 128 (2000), 3435-3444 Request permission

Abstract:

In this paper we shall give some sufficient conditions in order that the so-called $\varphi$-category of a pair $(M,N)$ of differentiable manifolds be infinite.

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