Higher Morse moduli spaces and n-categories

DOI10.4310/HHA.2014.V16.N2.A1MaRDI QIDQ2263804zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Sonja Hohloch

Publication date 19 March 2015

Published in Homology, Homotopy and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.10696

zbMATH Keywords

Morse theoryflow category\(n\)-category theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Categories of sets, characterizations (18B05) Abstract critical point theory (Morse theory, Lyusternik-Shnirel'man theory, etc.) in infinite-dimensional spaces (58E05) Categorical structures (18D99) Applied homological algebra and category theory in algebraic topology (55U99)

Abstract: We generalize Cohen & Jones & Segal's flow category whose objects are the critical points of a Morse function and whose morphisms are the Morse moduli spaces between the critical points to an n-category. The n-category construction involves repeatedly doing Morse theory on Morse moduli spaces for which we have to construct a class of suitable Morse functions. It turns out to be an `almost strict' n-category, i.e. it is a strict n-category `up to canonical isomorphisms'.

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