The Morse-Palais Lemma

Ref: Milnor (1969), Lang (1985)

• Morse-Palais Lemma
  • completely characterizes behavior of real-valued function in neighborhood of non-degenerate critical point
  • quadratic canonical form
  • Morse (1934) finite-dimensional case
  • Palais (1963) general Hilbert spaces

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