An invitation to Morse theory

DOI10.1007/978-0-387-49510-1zbMath1238.57001OpenAlexW4300104717MaRDI QIDQ5894253

Publication date: 29 August 2011

Published in: Universitext (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-49510-1

zbMATH Keywords

Morse inequalities critical point Morse function Morse-Smale flows complex Morse theory handle attachment

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Equivariant algebraic topology of manifolds (57R91) Symplectic and contact topology in high or arbitrary dimension (57R17) Momentum maps; symplectic reduction (53D20) Surfaces in Euclidean and related spaces (53A05) Floer homology (57R58) Curves in Euclidean and related spaces (53A04) Critical points and critical submanifolds in differential topology (57R70) Critical points of functions and mappings on manifolds (58K05) Monodromy on manifolds (58K10) Stratified sets (58A35) Introductory exposition (textbooks, tutorial papers, etc.) pertaining to manifolds and cell complexes (57-01)

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