Transversality for local Morse homology with symmetries and applications

DOI10.1007/S00209-019-02295-9zbMATH Open1439.53078arXiv1702.04609OpenAlexW2964289939MaRDI QIDQ2332886FDOQ2332886

Leonardo Macarini, Doris Hein, Umberto L. Hryniewicz

Publication date: 5 November 2019

Published in: Mathematische Zeitschrift (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We prove the transversality result necessary for defining local Morse chain complexes with finite cyclic group symmetry. Our arguments use special regularized distance functions constructed using classical covering lemmas, and an inductive perturbation process indexed by the strata of the isotropy set. A global existence theorem for symmetric Morse-Smale pairs is also proved. Regarding applications, we focus on Hamiltonian dynamics and rigorously establish a local contact homology package based on discrete action functionals. We prove a persistence theorem, analogous to the classical shifting lemma for geodesics, asserting that the iteration map is an isomorphism for good and admissible iterations. We also consider a Chas-Sullivan product on non-invariant local Morse homology, which plays the role of pair-of-pants product, and study its relationship to symplectically degenerate maxima. Finally, we explore how our invariants can be used to study bifurcation of critical points (and periodic points) under additional symmetries.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1702.04609

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zbMATH Keywords

transversalityMorse homologylocal contact homology

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Symplectic aspects of Floer homology and cohomology (53D40) Symplectic field theory; contact homology (53D42) Equivariant homology and cohomology in algebraic topology (55N91) Symplectic and contact topology in high or arbitrary dimension (57R17)

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