Elimination of extremal index zeroes from generic paths of closed 1-forms

Abstract: Let

a l p h a

be a Morse closed

1

-form of a smooth

n

-dimensional manifold

M

. The zeroes of

a l p h a

of index

0

or

n

are called emph{centers}. It is known that every non-vanishing de Rham cohomology class

u

contains a Morse representative without centers. The result of this paper is the one-parameter analogue of the last statement: every generic path

(a l p h a_{t})_{t i n [0, 1]}

of closed

1

-forms in a fixed class

u e q 0

such that

a l p h a_{0}, a l p h a_{1}

have no centers, can be modified relatively to its extremities to another such path

having no center at all.

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