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

DOI10.1142/S0219199799000171zbMATH Open0964.57030arXivmath/9911157MaRDI QIDQ4514928FDOQ4514928

Authors: Michael Farber 

Publication date: 14 November 2000

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

Abstract: In this paper we construct a Universal chain complex, counting zeros of closed 1-forms on a manifold. The Universal complex is a refinement of the well known Novikov complex; it relates the homotopy type of the manifold, after a suitable noncommutative localization, with the numbers of zeros of different indices which may have closed 1-forms within a given cohomology class. The Main Theorem of the paper generalizes the result of a joint paper with A. Ranicki, which treats the special case of closed 1-forms having integral cohomology classes. The present paper also describes a number of new inequalities, giving topological lower bounds on the number of zeroes of closed 1-forms. In particular, such estimates are provided by the homology of flat line bundles with monodromy described by complex numbers which are not Dirichlet units.

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

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zbMATH Keywords

critical pointsMorse indexMorse theorymanifolds with cornersNovikov inequalitiesflat vector bundlesclosed \(1\)-formschain collapseNovikov chain complex

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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) Global differential geometry (53C99) Simple homotopy type, Whitehead torsion, Reidemeister-Franz torsion, etc. (57Q10)

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• Counting zeros of closed 1-forms
• Controlled connectivity of closed \(1\)-forms
• On the Whitehead group of Novikov rings associated to irrational homomorphisms
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• The Morse-Novikov theory of circle-valued functions and noncommutative localization
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