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We introduce topological conditions on a broad class of functionals that ensure that the persistent homology modules of their associated sublevel set filtration admit persistence diagrams, which, in particular, implies that they satisfy…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2024-01-08 Ulrich Bauer , Anibal M. Medina-Mardones , Maximilian Schmahl

A weak entwining structure in a 2-category K consists of a monad t and a comonad c, together with a 2-cell relating both structures in a way that generalizes a mixed distributive law.A weak entwining structure can be characterized as a…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2010-09-21 Gabriella Böhm

Based on a Whitehead-type characterization of the sectional category we develop the notion of weak sectional category. This is a new lower bound of the sectional category, which is inspired by the notion of weak category in the sense of…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2014-02-26 J. M. G. Calcines , L. Vandembroucq

Let $M$ be a smooth closed orientable surface, and let $F$ be the space of Morse functions on $M$ such that at least $\chi(M)+1$ critical points of each function of $F$ are labeled by different labels (enumerated). Endow the space $F$ with…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2016-01-12 Elena Kudryavtseva

Given a smooth closed $n$-manifold $M$ and a $\kappa$-tuple of basepoints $\boldsymbol{q}\subset M$, we define a Morse-type $A_\infty$-algebra $CM_{-*}(\Omega(M,\boldsymbol{q}))$, called the based multiloop $A_\infty$-algebra, as a graded…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-03-11 Ko Honda , Roman Krutowski , Yin Tian , Tianyu Yuan

Let $f$ be a Morse function on a closed manifold $M$, and $v$ be a Riemannian gradient of $f$ satisfying the transversality condition. The classical construction (due to Morse, Smale, Thom, Witten), based on the counting of flow lines…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 A. Pajitnov

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

We pursue the analogy of a framed flow category with the flow data of a Morse function. In classical Morse theory, Morse functions can sometimes be locally altered and simplified by the Morse moves. These moves include the Whitney trick…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2015-07-14 Dan Jones , Andrew Lobb , Dirk Schuetz

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 develop a homotopical framework for small categories that extends classical invarints of algebraic topology to the categorical setting. Our approach is based on the construction of genuine path category, obtained trough a localization…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Isaac Carcacía-Campos , Enrique Macías-Virgós , David Mosquera-Lois

We prove that the topological flow category $\mathcal{M}$ arising from a Morse-Smale pair $(f,\xi)$ on a smooth closed manifold $X$ is equivalent, as an $\infty$-category, to Lurie's $\infty$-category $\mathrm{Sing}_A(X)$ of exit paths in…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2026-05-27 Colin Fourel

In a previous article the author extended the Witten deformation to singular spaces with cone-like singularities and to a class of Morse functions called admissible Morse functions. The method applies in particular to complex cones and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-07-11 Ursula Ludwig

Given two Morse functions $f, \mu$ on a compact manifold $M$, we study the Morse homology for the Lagrange multiplier function on $M \times {\mathbb R}$ which sends $(x, \eta)$ to $f(x) + \eta \mu(x)$. Take a product metric on $M \times…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-10-20 Stephen Schecter , Guangbo Xu

This paper provides a mathematical perspective on fragile topology phenomena in condensed matter physics. In dimension $d \leq 3$, vanishing Chern classes of bundles of Bloch eigenfunctions characterize operators with exponentially…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-08-05 Simon Becker , Zhongkai Tao , Mengxuan Yang

In~\cite{rotvandervorst} a homology theory --Morse-Conley-Floer homology-- for isolated invariant sets of arbitrary flows on finite dimensional manifolds is developed. In this paper we investigate functoriality and duality of this homology…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2015-02-04 T. O. Rot , R. C. A. M. Vandervorst

We generalize Cohen & Jones & Segal's flow category whose objects are the critical points of a Morse function and whose morphisms are the Morse moduli spaces between the critical points to an n-category. The n-category construction involves…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2017-04-03 Sonja Hohloch

We define a weak bimonad as a monad T on a monoidal category M with the property that the Eilenberg-Moore category M^T is monoidal and the forgetful functor from M^T to M is separable Frobenius. Whenever M is also Cauchy complete, a simple…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2014-05-21 Gabriella Böhm , Stephen Lack , Ross Street

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

We develop the theory of weak Fraisse categories, where the crucial concept is the weak amalgamation property, discovered relatively recently in model theory. We show that, in a suitable framework, every weak Fraisse category has its unique…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2021-08-25 Wieslaw Kubiś

We investigate if an existing notion of weak sequential convergence in a Hadamard space can be induced by a topology. We provide an answer on what we call weakly proper Hadamard spaces. A notion of dual space is proposed and it is shown…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-11 Arian Bërdëllima