Uniform approximation of continuous functions by smooth functions with no critical points on Hilbert manifolds

Details Uniform approximation of continuous functions by smooth functions with no critical points on Hilbert manifolds Uniform approximation of continuous functions by smooth functions with no critical points on Hilbert manifolds

2001-12-03

arxiv.org/abs/math/0112020v1

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Differential Geometry

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We prove that every continuous function on a separable infinite-dimensional Hilbert space X can be uniformly approximated by smooth functions with no critical points. This kind of result can be regarded as a sort of very strong approximate version of the Morse-Sard theorem. Some consequences of the main theorem are as follows. Every two disjoint closed subsets of X can be separated by a one-codimensional smooth manifold which is a level set of a smooth function with no critical points; this fact may be viewed as a nonlinear analogue of the geometrical version of the Hahn-Banach theorem. In particular, every closed set in X can be uniformly approximated by open sets whose boundaries are smooth one-codimensional submanifolds of X. Finally, since every Hilbert manifold is diffeomorphic to an open subset of the Hilbert space, all of these results still hold if one replaces the Hilbert space X with any smooth manifold M modelled on X.

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