Cobordism group of Morse functions on surfaces (Q1425467): Difference between revisions

The authors consider the oriented cobordism group \(\mathcal M(2)\) of Morse functions on manifolds of dimension \(2\) and prove that the mapping \(\mathcal M(2)\to \mathbb{Z}\) that takes the cobordism class of a function \(f\) into the difference of the numbers of maxima and minima of \(f\) is a well-defined isomorphism of abelian groups.