The Morse-Bott inequalities, orientations, and the Thom isomorphism in Morse homology

DOI10.1016/J.CRMA.2016.08.003zbMATH Open1350.57035arXiv1607.06244OpenAlexW2963576897MaRDI QIDQ321505FDOQ321505

Authors: T. O. Rot 

Publication date: 13 October 2016

Published in: Comptes Rendus. Mathématique. Académie des Sciences, Paris (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The Morse-Bott inequalities relate the topology of a closed manifold to the topology of the critical point set of a Morse-Bott function defined on it. The Morse-Bott inequalities are sometimes stated under incorrect orientation assumptions. We show that these assumptions are insufficient with an explicit counterexample and clarify the origin of the mistake.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1607.06244

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Morse-Smale systems (37D15) Critical points and critical submanifolds in differential topology (57R70) Abstract critical point theory (Morse theory, Lyusternik-Shnirel'man theory, etc.) in infinite-dimensional spaces (58E05) Critical points of functions and mappings on manifolds (58K05)

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