Morse Homology

by Schwarz and Matthias Schwarz

Book Overview

1.1 Background The subject of this book is Morse homology as a combination of relative Morse theory and Conley's continuation principle. The latter will be useda s an instrument to express the homology encoded in a Morse complex associated to a fixed Morse function independent of this function. Originally, this type of Morse-theoretical tool was developed by Andreas Floer in order to find a proof of the famous Arnold conjecture, whereas classical...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3034896883
• ISBN13: 9783034896887
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: Birkhauser
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"