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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 ff-bialgebra, a chain-level version of bialgebras introduced in [CHM24]; and that this assignment defines an \infty-functor. As a consequence, we obtain two other \infty-functors mapping closed smooth manifolds to their Morse complexes with their AA_\infty-coalgebra structures; and closed smooth manifolds with compact Lie group actions to their Morse complexes, with a ``uu-bimodule'' structure (a bimodule version for ff-bialgebras).

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@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

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