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Given a compact manifold with a non-empty boundary and equipped with a generic Morse function (that is, no critical point on the boundary and the restriction to the boundary is a Morse function), we already knew how to construct two Morse…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2020-02-05 François Laudenbach

In this paper, we study the computation of optimal discrete Morse functions on stratifolds. In particular, we present an algorithm that efficiently computes such functions for a broad class of them. Moreover, we characterize the conditions…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2026-03-03 Jesus Liceaga-Martinez , Jesús Rodríguez-Viorato , José Carlos Gómez-Larrañaga

Let $K$ be a finite simplicial complex, let $g\colon K\to K$ be a simplicial map and let $f$ be a discrete Morse-Bott function on $K$ satisfying $f(g(\sigma))\leq f(\sigma)$ for all simplices $\sigma$ in $K$. We establish a set of…

We study discrete (duality) symmetries of functional determinants. An exact transformation of the effective action under the inversion of background fields $\beta (x) \to \beta^{-1}(x)$ is found. We show that in many cases this inversion…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 D. V. Vassilevich , A. Zelnikov

We rely on the framework of Morse sequences to enable the direct computation of gradient vector fields on simplicial complexes. A Morse sequence is a filtration from a subcomplex $L$ to a complex $K$ via elementary expansions and fillings,…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Gilles Bertrand , Laurent Najman

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

With the smooth action of a connected compact Lie group G, we realize the G-invariant Thom-Smale complex in an analytic way using the G-invariant Witten instanton complex. Both complexes are associated to a specific Morse-Bott function on a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-01-16 Hao Zhuang

Based on the definition of the Fourier transform in terms of the number operator of the quantum harmonic oscillator and in the corresponding definition of the fractional Fourier transform, we have obtained the discrete fractional Fourier…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2016-04-25 Héctor M. Moya-Cessa , Francisco Soto-Eguibar

We consider finite approximations of a fractal generated by an iterated function system of affine transformations on $\mathbb{R}^d$ as a discrete set of data points. Considering a signal supported on this finite approximation, we propose a…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2016-07-14 Calvin Hotchkiss , Eric S. Weber

The article addresses some open questions about the relations between the topological weak mixing property and the transitivity of the map $f\times f^2 \times...\times f^m$, where $f\colon X\ra X$ is a topological dynamical system on a…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2014-05-06 Dominik Kwietniak , Piotr Oprocha

We construct Morse-Smale-Witten complex for an effective orientable orbifold. For a global quotient orbifold, we also construct a Morse-Bott complex. We show that certain type of critical points of a Morse function has to be discarded to…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2018-05-31 Cheol-Hyun Cho , Hansol Hong

In this work, we design a nearly linear time discrete Morse theory based algorithm for computing homology groups of 2-manifolds, thereby establishing the fact that computing homology groups of 2-manifolds is remarkably easy. Unlike previous…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2015-05-12 Abhishek Rathore

The two-dimensional Helmholtz equation separates in elliptic coordinates based on two distinct foci, a limit case of which includes polar coordinate systems when the two foci coalesce. This equation is invariant under the Euclidean group of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-04-30 Kenan Uriostegui , Kurt Bernardo Wolf

In this paper we give a complete topological classification of orientation preserving Morse-Smale diffeomorphisms on orientable closed surfaces. For MS diffeomorphisms with relatively simple behaviour it was known that such a classification…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2017-12-07 V. Z. Grines , O. V. Pochinka , S. van Strien

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

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

A simple version of exact finite dimensional reduction for the variational setting of mechanical systems is presented. It is worked out by means of a thorough global version of the implicit function theorem for monotone operators. Moreover,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-05-24 Franco Cardin , Giuseppe De Marco , Alessandro Sfondrini

Incidence relations among the cells of a regular CW complex produce a poset-enriched category of entrance paths whose classifying space is homotopy-equivalent to that complex. We show here that each acyclic partial matching (in the sense of…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2018-06-05 Vidit Nanda

We study two simplicial complexes arising from a directed graph $G = (V, E)$ with two chosen vertices $s$ and $t$: the *path-free complex*, consisting of all subsets $F \subseteq E$ that contain no path from $s$ to $t$, and the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-06-12 Darij Grinberg , Lukas Katthän , Joel Brewster Lewis

We consider many-point correlation functions of discrete fermions in the two-dimensional FK-Ising model and show that, despite not being commuting observable, they can be realized with a geometric-probabilistic approach in terms of loops of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-03-31 Francesco Spadaro