MORSE–NOVIKOV CRITICAL POINT THEORY, COHN LOCALIZATION AND DIRICHLET UNITS

DOI10.1142/S0219199799000171zbMath0964.57030arXivmath/9911157MaRDI QIDQ4514928

Michael S. Farber

Publication date: 14 November 2000

Published in: Communications in Contemporary Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/9911157

zbMATH Keywords

Morse theory; critical points; Morse index; manifolds with corners; Novikov inequalities; flat vector bundles; closed \(1\)-forms; chain collapse; Novikov chain complex

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

53C99: Global differential geometry

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

57R70: Critical points and critical submanifolds in differential topology

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