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We give a new proof of the Morse Homology Theorem by constructing a chain complex associated to a Morse-Bott-Smale function that reduces to the Morse-Smale-Witten chain complex when the function is Morse-Smale and to the chain complex of…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2013-01-04 Augustin Banyaga , David E. Hurtubise

Using Banchoff's discrete Morse Theory, in tandem with Bloch's result on the strong connection between the former and Forman's Morse Theory, and our own previous algorithm based on the later, we show that there exists a curvature-based,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-03-26 Emil Saucan

In this paper we define and study the moduli space of metric-graph-flows in a manifold M. This is a space of smooth maps from a finite graph to M, which, when restricted to each edge, is a gradient flow line of a smooth (and generically…

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

In the context of discrete Morse theory, we introduce Morse frames, which are maps that associate a set of critical simplexes to all simplexes. The main example of Morse frames are the Morse references. In particular, these Morse references…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Gilles Bertrand , Laurent Najman

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

This paper builds upon the framework of \emph{Morse sequences}, a simple and effective approach to discrete Morse theory. A Morse sequence on a simplicial complex consists of a sequence of nested subcomplexes generated by expansions and…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Gilles Bertrand

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

Recently, Asao and Izumihara introduced CW-complexes whose homology groups are isomorphic to direct summands of the graph magnitude homology group. In this paper, we study the homotopy type of the CW-complexes in connection with the…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2023-05-29 Yu Tajima , Masahiko Yoshinaga

The purpose of this paper is to collect the homotopical methods used in the development of the theory of flows initialized by author's paper ``A model category for the homotopy theory of concurrency''. It is presented generalizations of the…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2007-07-11 Philippe Gaucher

In this paper, we prove that discrete Morse functions on digraphs are flat Witten-Morse functions and Witten complexes of transitive digraphs approach to Morse complexes. We construct a chain complex consisting of the formal linear…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-08-19 Yong Lin , Chong Wang

Vector fields and line fields, their counterparts without orientations on tangent lines, are familiar objects in the theory of dynamical systems. Among the techniques used in their study, the Morse--Smale decomposition of a (generic) field…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Tiago Novello , João Paixão , Carlos Tomei , Thomas Lewiner

In this paper, we construct a pointed CW complex called the magnitude homotopy type for a given metric space $X$ and a real parameter $\ell \geq 0$. This space is roughly consisting of all paths of length $\ell$ and has the reduced homology…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2023-05-29 Yu Tajima , Masahiko Yoshinaga

For a finite simplicial complex K and a CW-pair (X,A), there is an associated CW-complex Z_K(X,A), known as a polyhedral product. We apply discrete Morse theory to a particular CW-structure on the n-sphere moment-angle complexes Z_K(D^{n},…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-12-21 Vladimir Grujic , Volkmar Welker

This thesis presents an overview of the flow equations recently introduced by Wegner. The little known mathematical framework of the flow in the manifold of unitarily equivalent matrices, as discovered in the mathematical literature before…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-09-29 Bruce Henry Bartlett

Given a smooth closed manifold M, the Morse-Witten complex associated to a Morse function f and a Riemannian metric g on M consists of chain groups generated by the critical points of f and a boundary operator counting isolated flow lines…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-02-10 Joa Weber

We complete the theoretical framework required for the construction of a Morse homology theory for certain types of forced mean curvature flows. The main result of this paper describes the asymptotic behaviour of these flows as the forcing…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-01-15 Graham Smith

We establish a large class of homotopy coherent Morita-equivalences of Dold-Kan type relating diagrams with values in any weakly idempotent complete additive $\infty$-category; the guiding example is an $\infty$-categorical Dold-Kan…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2022-03-18 Tashi Walde

The notion of a homotopy flow on a directed space was introduced in \cite{Raussen:07} as a coherent tool for comparing spaces of directed paths between pairs of points in that space with each other. If all parameter directed maps preserve…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2019-10-28 Martin Raussen

Continuous diffusion and flow matching models could represent a powerful alternative to autoregressive approaches for language modelling (LM), as they unlock a host of advantages currently reserved for continuous modalities, including…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Oscar Davis , Anastasiia Filippova , Pierre Ablin , Victor Turrisi , Amitis Shidani , Marco Cuturi , Louis Béthune

A flow is a directed space structure on a homotopy type. It is already known that the underlying homotopy type of the realization of a precubical set as a flow is homotopy equivalent to the realization of the precubical set as a topological…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2023-05-15 Philippe Gaucher