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The author introduces a notion of \(f\)-gradients for a Morse function \(f\colon M\to S^1\) defined on a closed manifold \(M\) to the circle and generalizes Morse-theoretical techniques to this notion in the second section. In the third section he gives a construction of the triangulation of a manifold with simplices of arbitrary small diameter with no use of triangulations of the manifold. In the fourth section, he deals with gradients of Morse functions on cobordisms, while in the fifth section he gives the proofs of his main results. These rely on the study of the Novikov incidence coefficients in the \(C^0\) topology in a subset of the set of all \(f\)-gradients satisfying a transversality condition. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0931.00017].