Natural pseudodistances between closed surfaces
Let us consider two closed surfaces , of class and two functions , of class , called measuring functions. The natural pseudodistance between the pairs , is defined as the infimum of as varies in the set of all homeomorphisms from onto . In this paper we prove that the natural pseudodistance equals either , , or , where and are two suitable critical values of the measuring functions. This shows that a previous relation between the natural pseudodistance and critical values...