We show that one can drop an important hypothesis of the saddle point theorem without affecting the result. We then show how this leads to stronger results in applications.
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Martin Schechter. A generalization of the saddle point method with applications. Annales Polonici Mathematici, Tome 57 (1992) pp. 269-281. http://gdmltest.u-ga.fr/item/bwmeta1.element.bwnjournal-article-apmv57z3p269bwm/
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