The relative cup-length in local Morse cohomology

arXiv2212.10309MaRDI QIDQ6507359FDOQ6507359

Authors: T. O. Rot, Maciej Starostka, N. Waterstraat 

Abstract: Local Morse cohomology associates cohomology groups to isolating neighborhoods of gradient flows of Morse functions on (generally non-compact) Riemannian manifolds $M$. We show that local Morse cohomology is a module over the cohomology of the isolating neighborhood, which allows us to define a cup-length relative to the cohomology of the isolating neighborhood that gives a lower bound on the number of critical points of functions on $M$ that are not necessarily Morse. Finally, we illustrate by an example that this lower bound can indeed be stronger than the lower bound given by the absolute cup-length.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Abstract critical point theory (Morse theory, Lyusternik-Shnirel'man theory, etc.) in infinite-dimensional spaces (58E05) Products and intersections in homology and cohomology (55N45) Real-valued functions on manifolds (58C05)

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