Witten deformation and polynomial differential forms

DOI10.1023/A:1005267630882MaRDI QIDQ1573687zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Michael Farber, Eugenii I. Shustin

Publication date 5 November 2000

Published in Geometriae Dedicata (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/9803136

zbMATH Keywords

de Rham complexpolynomial differential formsreal affine algebraic hypersurfacesWitten deformation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Differential forms in global analysis (58A10) Cohomology of classifying spaces for pseudogroup structures (Spencer, Gelfand-Fuks, etc.) (58H10) Differential complexes (58J10)

Abstract: As is well-known, the Witten deformation of the De Rham complex computes the De Rham cohomology. In this paper we study the Witten deformation on a noncompact manifold and restrict it to differential forms which behave polynomially near infinity. Such polynomial differential forms naturally appear on manifolds with a cylindrical structure. We prove that the cohomology of the Witten deformation acting on the complex of the polynomially growing forms can be computed as the relative cohomology of the manifold with respect to the negative remote fiber of the function. We show that the assumptions of our main theorem are satisfied in a number of interesting special cases, including generic real polynomials.

Review text

The Witten deformation of the cohomology [\textit{E. Witten}, J. Differ. Geom. 17, 661-692 (1982; Zbl 0499.53056)] is computed for noncompact manifolds \(M\) having cylindrical structure near infinity. It is proved that the cohomology of the Witten deformation \(d_h\) acting on the complex of the polynomially growing forms can be computed as the relative cohomology of the pair \((M,F)\) where \(F\) is a negative remote fiber of \(h\) under some assumptions. Here \(F=h^{-1}(-c)\) where \(c>0\) is large enough [cf. \textit{A. Braverman} and \textit{M. Braverman}, `Tempered currents and the cohomology of the remote fiber of a real polynomial map', preprint, \url{http://arXiv.org/abs/alg-geom/9704001}]. It is also shown that the assumptions of the theorem are satisfied in a number of cases, e.g. \(h\) is quasi-homogeneous; the Newton polyhedron of \(h\) lies under a hyperplane \(\sigma\), and the polynomial \(h^{\sigma}\) has no critical points on \(\mathbb{R}^n\) except the origin; \(h\) is bounded from below.

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