Morse lemma
Let be a smooth -dimensional manifold, and asmooth map. We denote by the set of critical points of, i.e.
For each we denote by (or if need to be specified) thebilinear map
where aresmooth vector fields such that and .This is a good definition. In fact implies
In smooth local coordinates on a neighborhood of we have
A critical point is called non degeneratewhen the matrix
is non singular. We can equivalentlyexpress this condition without the use of local coordinates sayingthat is non degenerate when for each the linear functional is not zero, i.e. there exists such that .
We recall that the index of a bilinear functional is the dimension of a maximal linearsubspace such that is negative definite
on.
Theorem 1 (Morse lemma)
Let be a smooth map. For each non degenerate there exists a neighborhood of and smooth coordinates on such that and
where .