Circle-valued Morse theory and Reidemeister torsion

DOI10.2140/gt.1999.3.369zbMath0929.57019arXivdg-ga/9706012MaRDI QIDQ1806354

Michael Hutchings, Yi-Jen Lee

Publication date: 9 November 1999

Published in: Geometry \& Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/dg-ga/9706012

zbMATH Keywords

Seiberg-Witten invariants; Turaev torsion; Morse-Novikov complex

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

58E05: Abstract critical point theory (Morse theory, Lyusternik-Shnirel'man theory, etc.) in infinite-dimensional spaces

57R57: Applications of global analysis to structures on manifolds

53C07: Special connections and metrics on vector bundles (Hermite-Einstein, Yang-Mills)

57Q10: Simple homotopy type, Whitehead torsion, Reidemeister-Franz torsion, etc.

57R70: Critical points and critical submanifolds in differential topology

37D15: Morse-Smale systems

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