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The surgery technique of Gromov and Lawson may be used to construct families of positive scalar curvature metrics which are parameterised by Morse functions. This has played an important role in the study of the space of metrics of positive scalar curvature on a smooth manifold and its corresponding moduli spaces. In t…

Distance function to a finite set is a topological Morse function.

Study Morse functions on manifolds with positive mean curvature.

The goal of this paper is to classify pairs of Morse functions in general position modulo the action of different groups.In particular, we obtain the classification of generic pairs of Morse functions, with or without target diffeomorphisms, and that of quotients of Morse functions.We will also present a lemma which gi…

In this paper, we study on knots and closed incompressible surfaces in the 3-sphere via Morse functions. We show that both of knots and closed incompressible surfaces can be isotoped into a "related Morse position" simultaneously. As an application, we have following results. *Smallness of Montesinos tangles with lengt…

Open books constructed from Morse functions and divides are shown to be isotopic.

Proves Morse index theorem for geodesics in conic Finsler manifolds.

Transcendental holomorphic Morse inequalities aim at characterizing the positivity of transcendental cohomology classes of type $(1,1)$. In this paper, we prove a weak version of Demailly's conjecture on transcendental Morse inequalities on compact Kähler manifolds. And as a consequence, we partially improve a result o…

We show that in a closed 3-manifold with a generic metric of positive Ricci curvature, there are minimal surfaces of arbitrary large Morse index, which partially confirms a conjecture by F. Marques and A. Neves. We prove this by analyzing the lamination structure of the limit of minimal surfaces with bounded Morse inde…

In this paper we prove the Cheeger-Müller theorem for $L^2$-analytic torsion form under the assumption that there exists a fiberwise Morse function and the Novikov-Shubin invariant is positive.

Study shows incompatibility of certain scalar curvatures on manifolds.

Develops virtual Morse-Bott indices for four-manifolds, proving inequalities.

Classifies nonorientable surfaces in a specific type of bundle.

Develops Morse theory for commuting gradient-like vector fields.

Study geodesics on graphs with random lengths, proving bi-infinite paths exist.

In an earlier work, we constructed the almost strict Morse $n$-category $\mathcal X$ which extends Cohen $\&$ Jones $\&$ Segal's flow category. In this article, we define two other almost strict $n$-categories $\mathcal V$ and $\mathcal W$ where $\mathcal V$ is based on homomorphisms between real vector spaces and $\ma…

Researchers prove spaces of positive scalar curvature metrics are contractible with symmetry.

The paper proves extension theorems for complex manifolds with Levi $q$-concave domains.

Constructs metrics with negative curvature on specific manifold types.

The paper proves the existence of at least 4 embedded minimal tori in a three-sphere with positive Ricci curvature.

The paper constructs Morse homology for functionals involving the p-Laplacian in Banach spaces.

The paper proves rigidity for mapping class group actions on metrics of positive scalar curvature.

The study of Morse functions on 3-manifolds and their Reeb graphs.

Minimal Morse functions on Poincaré dodecahedral space are selected via spectral properties.

First-passage percolation affects graph properties like curvature and geodesics.

In studies of smooth maps with good differential topological conditions such as immersions, embeddings, Morse functions and their higher dimensional versions including fold maps and application to geometry, especially algebraic and differential topology of manifolds, liftings or desingulizations of maps of appropriate …

We complete the theoretical framework required for the construction of a Morse homology theory for certain types of forced mean curvature flows. The main result of this paper describes the asymptotic behaviour of these flows as the forcing term tends to infinity in a certain manner. This result allows the Morse homolog…

We study the $L^2$ gradient flow of the Yang--Mills functional on the space of connection 1-forms on a principal $G$-bundle over the sphere $S^2$ from the perspective of Morse theory. The resulting Morse homology is compared to the heat flow homology of the space $ΩG$ of based loops in the compact Lie group $G$. An iso…

Study the space of simple polygons and their moduli.

A knot is an a-small knot if its exterior does not contain closed incompressible surfaces disjoint from some incompressible Seifert surface for the knot. Using circular thin position for knots we prove that the handle number is additive under the connected sum of two a-small knots. As a consequence the Morse-Novikov nu…

For any 3-manifold M and any nonnegative integer g, we give here examples of metrics on M each of which has a sequence of embedded minimal surfaces of genus g and without Morse index bounds. On any spherical space form S^3/Gamma we construct such a metric with positive scalar curvature. More generally we construct such…

Study confirms conjecture on Hermitian manifolds with bounded mass.

The Morse-Novikov number MN(L) of a smooth link L in the three-dimensional sphere is by definition the minimal possible number of critical points of a regular circle-valued Morse function on the link complement (the term regular means that the Morse function must have nice behaviour in a tubular neighbourhood of L). No…

In this paper, we study the prescribed $Q$-curvature problem on closed four-dimensional Riemannian manifolds when the total integral of the $Q$-curvature is a positive integer multiple of the one of the four-dimensional round sphere. This problem has a variational structure with a lack of compactness. Using some topolo…

We give existence results for solutions of the prescribed scalar curvature equation on $S^3$, when the curvature function is a positive Morse function and satisfies an index-count condition.

We use the cobordism category constructed in arXiv:1703.01047 to the study the homotopy type of the space of positive scalar curvature metrics on a spin manifold of dimension > 4. Our methods give an alternative proof and extension of a recent theorem of Botvinnik, Ebert, and Randal-Williams from arXiv:1411.7408.

Heat flow on lens spaces settles into Morse functions with four critical points.

Let $M$ be a compact surface and $P$ be a one dimensional manifold without boundary, that is the line $\mathbb{R}^1$ or a circle $S^1$. The classification of path-components of the space of Morse maps from $M$ into $P$ was recently obtained by S. V. Matveev and V. V. Sharko for the case $P=\mathbb{R}$. For $P=S^1$ the …

We construct and analyze minimal disc stackings with bounds on their Morse index.

Given a compact 3-manifold N without boundary, we prove that for a bumpy metric of positive scalar curvature the space of minimal surfaces having a uniform upper bound on the Morse index is always finite unless the manifold itself contains an embedded minimal RP^2. In particular, we derive a generic finiteness result w…

Study classifies translators for mean curvature flow in 3D.

The paper proves the existence of embedded hypersurfaces of constant mean curvature in manifolds with positive Ricci curvature.

In this paper, we consider the problem of existence and multiplicity of conformal metrics on a riemannian compact $4-$dimensional manifold $(M^4,g_0)$ with positive scalar curvature. We prove new exitence criterium which provides existence results for a dense subset of positive functions and generalizes Bahri-Coron and…

Constructs uniformly positive scalar curvature metrics on open manifolds

Develops Bialynicki-Birula and Morse-Bott theory for complex analytic spaces.

Study defines a new boundary for CAT(0) groups, invariant under quasi-isometries.

The Nirenberg problem yields multiple conformal metrics for a given scalar curvature function.

In the first half of the paper we construct a Morse-type theory on certain spaces of braid diagrams. We define a topological invariant of closed positive braids which is correlated with the existence of invariant sets of parabolic flows defined on discretized braid spaces. Parabolic flows, a type of one-dimensional lat…