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This thesis introduces the notion of "relative gerbes" for smooth maps of manifolds, and discusses their differential geometry. The equivalence classes of relative gerbes are classified by the relative integral cohomology in degree three.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Zohreh Shahbazi

For Morse-Smale pairs on a smooth, closed manifold the Morse-Smale-Witten chain complex can be defined. The associated Morse homology is isomorphic to the singular homology of the manifold and yields the classical Morse relations for Morse…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2014-09-11 T. O. Rot , R. C. A. M. Vandervorst

We define a relative version of contact homology for contact manifolds with convex boundary, and prove basic properties of this relative contact homology. Similar considerations also hold for embedded contact homology.

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2014-11-11 Vincent Colin , Paolo Ghiggini , Ko Honda , Michael Hutchings

We present an approach to Morse theory on symmetric products of surfaces using the notion of folded ribbon trees. We introduce an $A_\infty$-category with objects defined as $\kappa$-tuples of Morse functions, where the differential of the…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2023-09-13 Tianyu Yuan

In this paper we survey three approaches to computing the homology of a finite dimensional compact smooth closed manifold using a Morse-Bott function and discuss relationships among the three approaches. The first approach is to perturb the…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2015-03-20 David E. Hurtubise

We propose a way of understanding homological mirror symmetry when a complex manifold is a smooth compact toric manifold. So far, in many example, the derived category $D^b(coh(X))$ of coherent sheaves on a toric manifold $X$ is compared…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2022-04-20 Masahiro Futaki , Hiroshige Kajiura

The Morse-Bott inequalities relate the topology of a closed manifold to the topology of the critical point set of a Morse-Bott function defined on it. The Morse-Bott inequalities are sometimes stated under incorrect orientation assumptions.…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2016-07-22 Thomas O. Rot

We study connected components of the Morse boundary and their stabilisers. We introduce the notion of point-convergence and show that if the set of non-singleton connected components of the Morse boundary of a finitely generated group $G$…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2024-03-07 Annette Karrer , Babak Miraftab , Stefanie Zbinden

We consider a family of tight contact structures on the three-dimensional torus and we compute the relative Contact Homology by using the variational theory of critical points at infinity. We will also show some algebraic equivariant…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2016-10-05 Ali Maalaoui , Vittorio Martino

By studying spaces of flow graphs in a closed oriented manifold, we construct operations on its cohomology, parametrized by the homology of the moduli spaces of compact Riemann surfaces with boundary marked points. We show that the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2013-05-03 Viktor Fromm

Local Morse cohomology associates cohomology groups to isolating neighborhoods of gradient flows of Morse functions on (generally non-compact) Riemannian manifolds $M$. We show that local Morse cohomology is a module over the cohomology of…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2024-02-05 Thomas O. Rot , Maciej Starostka , Nils Waterstraat

In these lecture notes we discuss a body of work in which Morse theory is used to construct various homology and cohomology operations. In the classical setting of algebraic topology this is done by constructing a moduli space of graph…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Ralph L. Cohen

Our objective is to develop a stratified Morse theory with tangential conditions. We define a continuous strata-wise smooth Morse function on an abstract stratified space by using control conditions and radiality assumptions on the gradient…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2010-11-25 Ursula Ludwig

In this paper we construct a Universal chain complex, counting zeros of closed 1-forms on a manifold. The Universal complex is a refinement of the well known Novikov complex; it relates the homotopy type of the manifold, after a suitable…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 M. Farber

If a map $f$ has a homotopy retraction, then Doeraene and El Haouari conjectured that the sectional category and the relative category of $f$ are the same. In this work we discuss this conjecture for some lower bounds of these invariants.…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2016-08-11 J. G. Carrasquel-Vera , J. M. García Calcines , L. Vandembroucq

The paper is devoted to the comparison of the Fukaya category (it is responcible for the A-side of mirror symmetry) with the category of holonomic modules over the quantized algebra of functions on the same symplectic manifold. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Paul Bressler , Yan Soibelman

In this paper we use the gradient flow equation introduced in [10] to construct a Morse complex for the Hamiltonian action $\mathbb A_H$ on a mixed regularity space of loops in the cotangent bundle $T^*M$ of a closed manifold $M$.…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-01-28 L. Asselle , M. Starostka

In this paper, we determine the homotopy type of the Morse complex of certain collections of simplicial complexes by studying dominating vertices or strong collapses. We show that if $K$ contains two leaves that share a common vertex, then…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2021-07-19 Connor Donovan , Maxwell Lin , Nicholas A. Scoville

A combinatorial Morse structure encodes a mapping class for a surface with boundary, and the data may be efficiently represented via a Morse diagram. This diagram determines an open book decomposition of a 3-manifold, and hence, a contact…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-04-02 Jack Brand , David Gay , Joan Licata

Kontsevich and Soibelman discussed homological mirror symmetry by using the SYZ torus fibrations, where they introduced the weighted version of Fukaya-Oh's Morse homotopy on the base space of the dual torus fibration in the intermediate…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2024-12-13 Azuna Nishida