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Linear independence of Morse functions on manifolds

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It is proved that on a smooth n-dimensional manifold there exist n linearly independent Morse functions.

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Translated from Ukrainskii Matematicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 42, No. 6, pp. 835–838, June, 1990.

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Asvad, K. Linear independence of Morse functions on manifolds. Ukr Math J 42, 737–739 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01058925

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