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Computable, obstructed Morse homology for clean intersections

Symplectic Geometry 2024-09-19 v1 Geometric Topology

Abstract

In this paper, we develop a method to compute the Morse homology of a manifold when descending manifolds and ascending manifolds intersect cleanly, but not necessarily transversely. While obstruction bundle gluing defined by Hutchings and Taubes is a computable tool to handle non-transverse intersections, it has only been developed for specific cases. In contrast, most virtual techniques apply to general cases but lack computational efficiency. To address this, we construct minimal semi-global Kuranishi structures for the moduli spaces of Morse trajectories, which generalize obstruction bundle gluing while maintaining its computability feature. Through this construction, we obtain iterated gluing equals simultaneous gluing.

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@article{arxiv.2409.11565,
  title  = {Computable, obstructed Morse homology for clean intersections},
  author = {Erkao Bao and Ke Zhu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.11565},
  year   = {2024}
}

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40 pages

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