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Stable fold maps are fundamental tools in a generalization of the theory of Morse functions on smooth manifolds and its application to studies of geometric properties of smooth manifolds. Round fold maps were introduced as stable fold maps…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2019-05-14 Naoki Kitazawa

This paper is devoted to the study of a natural group topology on the fundamental group which remembers local properties of spaces forgotten by covering space theory and weak homotopy type. It is known that viewing the fundamental group as…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2020-04-14 Jeremy Brazas

To capture the global structure of a dynamical system we reformulate dynamics in terms of appropriately constructed topologies, which we call flow topologies; we call this process topologization. This yields a description of a semi-flow in…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-07-15 Kelly Spendlove , Robert Vandervorst

In 1995, Cohen, Jones and Segal proposed a method of upgrading any given Floer homology to a stable homotopy-valued invariant. For a generic pseudo-gradient Morse-Bott flow on a closed smooth manifold $M$, we rigorously construct the…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-01-14 Ciprian Mircea Bonciocat

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 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

We construct algorithms and topological invariants that allow us to distinguish the topological type of a surface, as well as functions and vector fields for their topological equivalence. In the first part (arXiv:2501.15657), we discused…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-02-04 Alexandr Prishlyak

The study of algebraic properties of groups of transformations of a manifold gives rise to an interplay between different areas of mathemathics such as topology, geometry, and dynamical systems. Especially, in this paper, we point out some…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2016-01-05 Stéphane Tchuiaga

In this paper, we develop methods for calculating equivariant homology from equivariant Morse functions on a closed manifold with the action of a finite group. We show how to alter $G$-equivariant Morse functions to a stable one, where the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-02-04 Erkao Bao , Tyler Lawson

We define a notion of Morse function and establish Morse theory-like theorems over offsets of any compact set in a Euclidean space at regular values of their distance function. Using non-smooth analysis and tools from geometric measure…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-07-28 Antoine Commaret

The irrational torus, $\mathrm{T}_\alpha$, originally introduced as a geometric model for quasicrystals, is a foundational object in the theory of diffeology. This paper, after recalling its main algebraic properties, provides a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-01-05 Patrick Iglesias-Zemmour

This paper brings together three distinct theories with the goal of quantifying shape textures with complex morphologies. Distance fields are central objects in shape representation, while topological data analysis uses algebraic topology…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2023-07-04 Anna Song , Ka Man Yim , Anthea Monod

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 1950s Morse defined the analogue of Morse functions for topological manifolds. In many instances, when mathematicians are using techniques on topological manifolds that appear to be Morse-theoretic in nature, there is a topological…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-03-11 Ingrid Irmer

We construct a Floer type boundary operator for generalised Morse-Smale dynamical systems on compact smooth manifolds by counting the number of suitable flow lines between closed (both homoclinic and periodic) orbits and isolated critical…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2024-12-10 Marzieh Eidi , Jürgen Jost

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 construct the vortex Floer homology group $VHF (M,\mu;H)$ for an aspherical Hamiltonian $G$-manifold $(M, \omega)$ with moment map $\mu$ and a class of $G$-invariant Hamiltonian loop $H_t$, following the proposal of [3]. This is a…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2016-03-22 Guangbo Xu

We construct algorithms and topological invariants that allow us to distinguish the topological type of a surface, as well as functions and vector fields for their topological equivalence. In the first part we discus the main structures…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-01-28 Alexandr Prishlyak

The cell complex structure is one of the most fundamental structures in topology and combinatorics, the Morse decomposition of a dynamical system analyzes the global gradient behavior, and the Reeb graph of a function is an elementary tool…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-05-31 Tomoo Yokoyama

In this paper we present a new approach to Morse theory based on the de Rham-Federer theory of currents. The full classical theory is derived in a transparent way. The methods carry over uniformly to the equivariant and the holomorphic…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-08-27 F. Reese Harvey , H. Blaine Lawson,