A Thom-Smale-Witten theorem on manifolds with boundary: the arbitrary metric case (Q524424)

For a Morse function \(f\) on a compact Riemannian manifold with boundary, the author established in [``A Thom-Smale-Witten theorem on manifolds with boundary'', to appear in Math. Res. Lett. 24, 119--151 (2017), \url{arXiv:1205.4665}] an isomorphism between the Witten instanton complex and the Thom-Smale complex, provided the metric is Euclidean around critical points. In the present paper the isomorphism is established without a condition on the metric. The proof is based on Bismut-Lebeau's analytic localization techniques.