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Smooth structures on Morse trajectory spaces, featuring finite ends and associative gluing

Differential Geometry 2016-01-20 v1 Dynamical Systems Geometric Topology Symplectic Geometry

Abstract

We give elementary constructions of manifold with corner structures and associative gluing maps on compactifications of spaces of infinite, half infinite, and finite Morse flow lines.

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@article{arxiv.1205.0713,
  title  = {Smooth structures on Morse trajectory spaces, featuring finite ends and associative gluing},
  author = {Katrin Wehrheim},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1205.0713},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

This paper is very much meant as service to the community, so all kinds of feedback will be highly welcome. Notation is complicated by finite ends; readers interested in the basics should "quotient out by those technicalities"

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