The Morse complex is an $\infty$-functor
Algebraic Topology
2026-04-08 v2 Category Theory
Geometric Topology
Symplectic Geometry
Abstract
We show that the Morse complex of a compact Lie monoid can be given the structure of an -bialgebra, a chain-level version of bialgebras introduced in [CHM24]; and that this assignment defines an -functor. As a consequence, we obtain two other -functors mapping closed smooth manifolds to their Morse complexes with their -coalgebra structures; and closed smooth manifolds with compact Lie group actions to their Morse complexes, with a ``-bimodule'' structure (a bimodule version for -bialgebras).
Cite
@article{arxiv.2505.01362,
title = {The Morse complex is an $\infty$-functor},
author = {Guillem Cazassus},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.01362},
year = {2026}
}
Comments
34 pages, 2 figures, comments are welcome