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[110] Critical Point Theory in Mathematics and in Mathematical Physics

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At last year’s Gökova Conference I reported on a “topological approach” to the “new” knot invariants, which ClifF Taubes and I had worked out along lines initiated by Axelrod and Singer [AS] and Kontsevich [K] in their work on 3-manifold invariants.

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  1. Department of Mathematics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

    Raoul Bott

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  1. Department of Mathematics, Tufts University, Medford, MA, USA

    Loring W. Tu

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Bott, R. (2017). [110] Critical Point Theory in Mathematics and in Mathematical Physics. In: Tu, L. (eds) Raoul Bott: Collected Papers . Contemporary Mathematicians. Birkhäuser, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51781-0_33

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