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Abstract for MSRI Preprint 2004-009

Closed 1-forms with at most one zero

M. Farber and D. Schütz

We prove that in any nonzero cohomology class $\xi\in H^1(M;{\mathbb R})$ there always exists a closed 1-form having at most one zero.