Stephan Mescher

Perturbed Gradient Flow Trees and A8-algebra Structures in Morse Cohomology (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

This book elaborates on an idea put forward by M. Abouzaid on equipping the Morse cochain complex of a smooth Morse function on a closed oriented manifold with the structure of an A8-algebra by means of perturbed gradient flow trajectories. This approach is a variation on K. Fukaya's definition of Morse-A8-categories for closed oriented manifolds involving families of Morse functions. To make A8-structures in Morse theory accessible to a broader audience, this book provides a coherent and detailed treatment of Abouzaid's approach, including a discussion of all relevant analytic notions and results, requiring only a basic grasp of Morse theory. In particular, no advanced algebra skills are required, and the perturbation theory for Morse trajectories is completely self-contained.

In addition to its relevance for finite-dimensional Morse homology, this book may be used as a preparation for the study of Fukaya categories in symplectic geometry. It will be of interest to researchers in mathematics (geometry and topology), and to graduate students in mathematics with a basic command of the Morse theory.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer International Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 171
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. April 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783319765846
• Artikelnr.: 52482783

Autorenporträt

Dr. Stephan Mescher is a Research Fellow at the University of Leipzig. He graduated with a degree in Mathematics from Bielefeld University in 2008 and obtained his Ph.D. at the University of Leipzig in 2017, supervised by Prof. Matthias Schwarz.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Basics on Morse homology.- 2. Perturbations of gradient flow trajectories.- 3. Nonlocal generalizations.- 4. Moduli spaces of perturbed Morse ribbon trees.- 5. The convergence behaviour of sequences of perturbed Morse ribbon trees.- 6. Higher order multiplications and the A -relations.- 7. A -bimodule structures on Morse chain complexes.- A. Orientations and sign computations for perturbed Morse ribbon trees.