Morse theory
nounEtymology Based on the work of Marston Morse.
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Mathematics, Sciences The study of differentiable functions, where the domain of each is a manifold and the codomain is the real line.
- March 14, 2018, Roger Penrose writing in The Guardian, Mind over matter': Stephen Hawking – obituary […] the spaces that are used in Einstein’s theory are really pseudo-Riemannian and the relevant Morse theory differs in subtle but important ways.