Refinement of Novikov-Betti numbers and of Novikov homology provided by an angle valued map (Q2202811)

Given a compact ANR \(X\) and a map \(f\colon X\to S^1\), a field \(\kappa\) and a non-negative integer, the author assigns to this a finite configuration of complex numbers with multiplicities, and a finite configuration of free \(\kappa[t,t^{-1}]\)-modules indexed over the same complex numbers. The finite configuration of complex numbers refine the Novikov-Betti numbers, while the configurations of free modules refine Novikov homology of \(X\) correspoding to \(f\). In the case \(\kappa = \mathbb{C}\) the author shows that the configuration of free modules can be completed to mutually orthogonal closed Hilbert submodules of the \(L^2\)-homology of the infinite cyclic covering determined by \(f\).