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We provide a new approach to studying the moduli space of curves via Morse theory and hyperbolic geometry, by introducing a family of Morse functions on the moduli space $\overline{\mathcal{M}}_{g,n}$ of stable curves of genus $g$ with $n$…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-05-05 Changjie Chen

This paper aims at setting out the basics of $\mathbb{Z}$-graded manifolds theory. We introduce $\mathbb{Z}$-graded manifolds from local models and give some of their properties. The requirement to work with a completed graded symmetric…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-03-29 Maxime Fairon

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

The concept of self-similarity on subsets of algebraic varieties is defined by considering algebraic endomorphisms of the variety as `similarity' maps. Self-similar fractals are subsets of algebraic varieties which can be written as a…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2015-04-21 Arash Rastegar

We prove a compactness result for gradient flow lines in a general set-up which comprises both the situation of Morse gradient flow lines as well as Floer cylinders converging to a critical submanifold respectively. For the compactness…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-23 Tom Stalljohann

By a gradient-like flow on a closed orientable surface $M$, we mean a closed 1-form $\beta$ defined on $M$ punctured at a finite set of points (sources and sinks of $\beta$) such that there exists a Morse function $f$ on $M$, called an…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2021-06-08 Elena A. Kudryavtseva

In this paper we study the relationship of the Brouwer degree of a vector field with the dynamics of the induced flow. Analogous relations are studied for the index of a vector field. We obtain new forms of the Poincar% \'{e}-Hopf theorem…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2024-01-17 Héctor Barge , José M. R. Sanjurjo

We investigate smooth approximations of functions, with prescribed gradient behavior on a distinguished stratified subset of the domain. As an application, we outline how our results yield important consequences for a recently introduced…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2015-07-21 D. Drusvyatskiy , M. Larsson

The theory of indices of Morse--Bott vector fields on a manifold is constructed and the famous localization problem for the transfer map is solved on its base in the present paper. As a consequence, we obtained addition theorems for the…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 V. M. Buchstaber , K. E. Feldman

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

We study whether iterated vector fields (vector fields composed with themselves) are conservative. We give explicit examples of vector fields for which this self-composition preserves conservatism. Notably, this includes gradient vector…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-11-16 Zachary Charles , Keith Rush

We show that orientations and Floer gradings for elliptic differential operators can be propagated through bordisms. This is based on a new perspective on APS indices for elliptic boundary value problems over the real numbers. Several…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-12-13 Markus Upmeier

We consider random labelings of finite graphs conditioned on a small fixed number of peaks. We introduce a continuum framework where a combinatorial graph is associated with a metric graph and edges are identified with intervals. Next we…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-08-15 Krzysztof Burdzy , Soumik Pal

We employ partitioning methods, in the spirit of Montiel--Ros but here recast for general actions of compact Lie groups, to prove effective lower bounds on the Morse index of certain families of closed minimal hypersurfaces in the round…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-11-19 Alessandro Carlotto , Mario B. Schulz , David Wiygul

There are many approaches to the classification of Morse functions and their gradient fields (Morse Fields) on 2-surfaces. This paper studies the gluings of quadrilaterals and the classification of topological surfaces obtained by gluing…

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The sigma index of a graph, defined as the population variance of its degree sequence, is a fundamental measure of structural irregularity. In this paper, we introduce and systematically investigate its natural extension to fuzzy graphs,…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2026-04-16 Duaa Abdullah

Vector bundles and double vector bundles, or $2$-fold vector bundles, arise naturally for instance as base spaces for algebraic structures such as Lie algebroids, Courant algebroids and double Lie algebroids. It is known that all these…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-05-29 Elizaveta Vishnyakova

We study orbit spaces of generalized gradient vector fields for Morse functions. Typically, these orbit spaces are non-Hausdorff. Nevertheless, they are quite structured topologically and are amenable to study. We show that these orbit…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2014-08-06 Jack S. Calcut , Robert E. Gompf

We consider in this work small random perturbations (of multiplicative noise type) of the gradient flow. We prove that under mild conditions, when the potential function is a Morse function with additional strong saddle condition, the…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-04-29 Jiaojiao Yang , Wenqing Hu , Chris Junchi Li