Examples of homology 3-spheres whose Chern-Simons function is not Morse-Bott

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Authors Hans U. Boden, Christopher M. Herald, Paul Kirk

Publication date 9 January 2023

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Homology theories in knot theory (Khovanov, Heegaard-Floer, etc.) (57K18) Invariants of 3-manifolds (including skein modules, character varieties) (57K31) Floer homology (57R58) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13)

Abstract: We construct homology 3-spheres for which the (unperturbed) $SU(2)$ Chern-Simons function is not Morse-Bott. In one example, there is a degenerate isolated critical point. In another, a path component of the critical set is not homeomorphic to a manifold. The examples are $+1$ Dehn surgeries on connected sums of torus knots.

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