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Microlocal perverse sheaves form a stack on the cotangent bundle of a complex manifold that is the analogue of the stack of perverse sheaves on the manifold itself. We give an embedding of the stack of microlocal perverse sheaves into a…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 S. Gelfand , R. MacPherson , K. Vilonen

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

In this article, we use concepts and methods from the theory of simplicial sets to study discrete Morse theory. We focus on the discrete flow category introduced by Vidit Nanda, and investigate its properties in the case where it is defined…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-03-05 Bjørnar Gullikstad Hem

The class of special generic maps contains Morse functions with exactly two singular points, characterizing spheres topologically which are not $4$-dimensional and the $4$-dimensional unit sphere. This class is for higher dimensional…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2022-09-20 Naoki Kitazawa

We establish several results combining discrete Morse theory and microlocal sheaf theory in the setting of finite posets and simplicial complexes. Our primary tool is a computationally tractable description of the bounded derived category…

General Topology · Mathematics 2025-06-11 Adam Brown , Ondrej Draganov

The purpose of this work is to develop a version of Forman's discrete Morse theory for simplicial complexes, based on internal strong collapses. Classical discrete Morse theory can be viewed as a generalization of Whitehead's collapses,…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-06-24 Ximena L. Fernández

Spectral subspaces of a linear dynamical system identify a large class of invariant structures that highlight/isolate the dynamics associated to select subsets of the spectrum. The corresponding notion for nonlinear systems is that of…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-08-03 Gergely Buza

We develop the notion of a "filtered cospan" as an algebraic object that stands in the same relation to interlevel persistence modules as filtered chain complexes stand with respect to sublevel persistence modules. This relation is…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2026-01-01 Michael Usher

A smooth manifold hosts different types of submanifolds, including embedded, weakly-embedded, and immersed submanifolds. The notion of an immersed submanifold requires additional structure (namely, the choice of a topology); when this…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-04-25 Yael Karshon , David Miyamoto , Jordan Watts

We present an alternative application of discrete Morse theory for two-particle graph configuration spaces. In contrast to previous constructions, which are based on discrete Morse vector fields, our approach is through Morse functions,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-01-19 Adam Sawicki

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

Imaging assays of cellular function, especially those using fluorescent stains, are ubiquitous in the biological and medical sciences. Despite advances in computer vision, such images are often analyzed using only manual or rudimentary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-06 Lena R. Bartell , Lawrence J. Bonassar , Itai Cohen

On a smooth manifold, we associate to any closed differential form a mapping cone complex. The cohomology of this mapping cone complex can vary with the de Rham cohomology class of the closed form. We present a novel Morse theoretical…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-06-21 David Clausen , Xiang Tang , Li-Sheng Tseng

Recovering hidden graph-like structures from potentially noisy data is a fundamental task in modern data analysis. Recently, a persistence-guided discrete Morse-based framework to extract a geometric graph from low-dimensional data has…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-03-22 Tamal K. Dey , Jiayuan Wang , Yusu Wang

In bounding the homology of a manifold, Forman's Discrete Morse theory recovers the full precision of classical Morse theory: Given a PL triangulation of a manifold that admits a Morse function with c_i critical points of index i, we show…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-07-10 Bruno Benedetti

We describe all possible topological structures of Morse flows and typical gradient saddle-nod bifurcation of flows on the 2-dimensional torus with a hole in the case that the number of singular point of flows is at most six. To describe…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2024-04-04 Maria Loseva , Alexandr Prishlyak , Kateryna Semenovych , Dariia Synieok

Accurate delineation of fine-scale structures is a very important yet challenging problem. Existing methods use topological information as an additional training loss, but are ultimately making pixel-wise predictions. In this paper, we…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-04 Xiaoling Hu , Dimitris Samaras , Chao Chen

In this work, we introduce a combinatorial-geometric model for the space of discrete Morse functions on any CW complex $X$. We relate this version of a space of discrete Morse functions to the space of cellular filtrations of $X$ and…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2026-02-13 Julian Brüggemann

It is known that $C^r$ Morse-Smale vector fields form an open dense subset in the space of vector fields on orientable closed surfaces and are structurally stable for any $r \in \mathbb{Z}_{>0}$. In particular, $C^r$ Morse vector fields…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-10-01 Vladislav Kibkalo , Tomoo Yokoyama

An explicit isomorphism between Morse homology and singular homology is constructed via the technique of pseudo-cycles. Given a Morse cycle as a formal sum of critical points of a Morse function, the unstable manifolds for the negative…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Matthias Schwarz