Integrable Gradient Flows and Morse Theory
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Completely integrable finite-dimensional Hamiltonian systems, integration methods, integrability tests (37J35) Completely integrable infinite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems, integration methods, integrability tests, integrable hierarchies (KdV, KP, Toda, etc.) (37K10) Abstract critical point theory (Morse theory, Lyusternik-Shnirel'man theory, etc.) in infinite-dimensional spaces (58E05) Applications of variational problems in infinite-dimensional spaces to the sciences (58E50)
Abstract: Examples of Morse functions with integrable gradient flows on some classical Riemannian manifolds are considered. In particular, we show that a generic height function on the symmetric embeddings of classical Lie groups and certain symmetric spaces is a perfect Morse function, i.e. has as many critical points as the homology requires, and the corresponding gradient flow can be described explicitly. This gives an explicit cell decomposition and geometric realization of the homology for such a manifold. As another application of the integrable Morse functions we give an elementary proof of Vassiljev's theorem on the flag join of Grassmannians.
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