Morse function
English
Etymology
Named after Marston Morse.
Noun
Morse function (plural Morse functions)
- A real-valued function on a differentiable manifold such that, at each point in its domain where the function's differential is zero, the function's Hessian is nonsingular.
Usage notes
- Some sources require also for each that the preimage of be compact, or that the preimage of contain at most one point with zero differential.
Further reading
Morse function on Wikipedia.Wikipedia