The Witten complex and the degenerate Morse inequalities

DOI10.4310/JDG/1214440113zbMath0608.58038OpenAlexW1579172684WikidataQ115185463 ScholiaQ115185463MaRDI QIDQ1085865

Jean-Michel Bismut

Publication date: 1986

Published in: Journal of Differential Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.4310/jdg/1214440113

zbMATH Keywords

Morse inequalitiesMalliavin calculusde Rham complexindex theoremWitten complexcritical submanifolds

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Abstract critical point theory (Morse theory, Lyusternik-Shnirel'man theory, etc.) in infinite-dimensional spaces (58E05) Index theory and related fixed-point theorems on manifolds (58J20) Diffusion processes and stochastic analysis on manifolds (58J65) Differential complexes (58J10) Heat and other parabolic equation methods for PDEs on manifolds (58J35)

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