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- From: thornton@carson.u.washington.edu (Kenneth Thornton)
- Newsgroups: sci.math
- Subject: Smooth functions on the sphere
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.202506.22162@u.washington.edu>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 20:25:06 GMT
- Article-I.D.: u.1992Nov16.202506.22162
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- Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
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- Let's say I have a smooth C^2 function f: S->R defined
- on the 2-sphere S.
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- Let's also assume that the local maxima of this function
- trace out a set of connected closed curves (there are
- no isolated maxima) on S.
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- Is there a name for functions of this type?
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- Ken Thornton
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