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We provide a combinatorial definition of a bordered Floer theory with $\mathbb Z$ coefficients for manifolds with torus boundary. Our bordered Floer structures recover the combinatorial Heegaard Floer homology defined by Ozsv\'ath,…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2021-08-02 Douglas Knowles , Ina Petkova

It is the goal of this paper to present the first steps for defining the analogue of Hamiltonian Floer theory for covariant field theory, treating time and space relativistically. While there already exist a number of competing geometric…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2022-11-23 Ronen Brilleslijper , Oliver Fabert

Given a grid diagram for a knot or link K in $S^3$, we construct a filtered spectrum whose homology is the knot Floer homology of K. We conjecture that the filtered homotopy type of the spectrum is an invariant of K. Our construction does…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-09-11 Ciprian Manolescu , Sucharit Sarkar

Given a Morse function on a manifold whose moduli spaces of gradient flow lines for each action window are compact up to breaking one gets a bidirect system of chain complexes. There are different possibilities to take limits of such a…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2009-11-11 Kai Cieliebak , Urs Frauenfelder

Rabinowitz Floer homology is the semi-infinite dimensional Morse homology associated to the Rabinowitz action functional used in the pioneering work of Rabinowitz. Gradient flow lines are solutions of a vortex-like equation. In this survey…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2013-02-01 Peter Albers , Urs Frauenfelder

In this paper, we investigate vector fields on polyhedral complexes and their associated trajectories. We study vector fields which are analogue of the gradient vector field of a function in the smooth case. Our goal is to define a nice…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2021-09-09 Takeo Nishinou

We prove that the Floer complex that is associated with a convex Hamiltonian function on $\mathbb{R}^{2n}$ is isomorphic to the Morse complex of Clarke's dual action functional that is associated with the Fenchel-dual Hamiltonian. This…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2023-12-15 Alberto Abbondandolo , Jungsoo Kang

The main goal is to construct a combinatorial dynamical system in the sense of Forman from finite vector field data. We use a linear minimization problem with binary variables and linear equality constraints. The solution of the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-12-24 Dominic Desjardins Côté

Morse theory relates algebraic topology invariants and the dynamics of the gradient flow of a Morse function, allowing to derive information about one out of the other. In the case of the homology, the construction extends to much more…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2024-10-11 Jean-François Barraud , Florian Bertuol

In the case of smooth manifolds, we use Forman's discrete Morse theory to realize combinatorially any Thom-Smale complex coming from a smooth Morse function by a couple triangulation-discrete Morse function. As an application, we prove that…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2008-12-18 Etienne Gallais

Morse decompositions partition the flows in a vector field into equivalent structures. Given such a decomposition, one can define a further summary of its flow structure by what is called a connection matrix.These matrices, a generalization…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-07-31 Tamal K. Dey , Michał Lipiński , Andrew Haas

We calculate the self-Floer cohomology with Z/2 coefficients of some immersed Lagrangian spheres in the affine symplectic submanifolds of C^3 that are smoothings of A_N surfaces. The immersed spheres are exact and graded. Moreover, they…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2013-11-12 Garrett Alston

We introduce a new notion of persistence modules endowed with operators. It encapsulates the additional structure on Floer-type persistence modules coming from the intersection product with classes in the ambient (quantum) homology, along…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2017-03-07 Leonid Polterovich , Egor Shelukhin , Vukašin Stojisavljević

We define Floer homology theories for oriented, singular knots in S^3 and show that one of these theories can be defined combinatorially for planar singular knots.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-02-26 Peter Ozsvath , Andras I. Stipsicz , Zoltan Szabo

We study the Floer-theoretic interaction between disjointly supported Hamiltonians by comparing Floer-theoretic invariants of these Hamiltonians with the ones of their sum. These invariants include spectral invariants, boundary depth and…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2023-05-17 Yaniv Ganor , Shira Tanny

Many dynamical systems can be described in terms of structured flows combining source/sink behavior, cyclic dynamics, and topology-constrained transport. These features arise across a wide range of domains, including physical, engineered,…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2026-05-19 Diego Casadei

We define combinatorial Floer homology of a transverse pair of noncontractibe nonisotopic embedded loops in an oriented 2-manifold without boundary, prove that it is invariant under isotopy, and prove that it is isomorphic to the original…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2015-03-20 Vin de Silva , Joel Robbin , Dietmar Salamon

We construct a version of Hamiltonian Floer Homology based on the notion of a semi-infinite cycle. As an application, we provide a new proof for the existence of critical points of the action functional.

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2014-09-04 Max Lipyanskiy

In principle, Floer theory can be extended to define homotopy invariants of families of equivalent objects (e.g. Hamiltonian isotopic symplectomorphisms, 3-manifolds, Legendrian knots, etc.) parametrized by a smooth manifold B. The…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2014-10-01 Michael Hutchings

In case of the heat flow on the free loop space of a closed Riemannian manifold non-triviality of Morse homology for semi-flows is established by constructing a natural isomorphism to singular homology of the loop space. The construction is…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-09-25 Joa Weber