Circle-Valued Morse Theory (de Gruyter Studies in Mathematics 32) (De Gruyter Studies in Mathematics)

by Andrei V. Pajitnov

2006 454 pages eng

In the early 1920s M. Morse discovered that the number of critical points of a smooth function on a manifold is closely related to the topology of the manifold. This became a starting point of the Morse theory which is now one of the basic parts of differential topology. Circle-valued Morse theory o…