Comparison between two complexes on a singular space (Q5891631)

The paper under review studies the Witten deformation for stratified spaces and radial Morse functions on them. The first main result of the paper is a spectral gap theorem for the Witten Laplacian operator. In addition, the author also pays attention to the spaces with isolated conic singularities, and constructs a geometric complex associated to the Morse function on such a space, so that two comparison theorems can be obtained which are a generalization of two theorems by \textit{J. M. Bismut} and \textit{W. Zhang} [Geom. Funct. Anal. 4, No. 2, 136--212 (1994; Zbl 0830.58030)].