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

DOI10.1016/J.CRMA.2016.08.003MaRDI QIDQ321505zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors T. O. Rot

Publication date 13 October 2016

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

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

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)

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.

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