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Umbilical Submanifolds and Morse Functions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 January 2016

Katsumi Nomizu
Affiliation:
Brown University
Lucio Rodríguez
Affiliation:
Brown University
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Let Mn be a differentiable manifold (of class C). By a Morse function on Mn we mean a differentiable function whose critical points are all non-degenerate. If f is an immersion of Mn into a Euclidean space Rm, we may obtain Morse functions on Mn in the following way.

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Copyright © Editorial Board of Nagoya Mathematical Journal 1972

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