An invitation to Morse theory

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Label

An invitation to Morse theory

Statement of responsibility

Liviu I. Nicolaescu

Creator

• Nicolaescu, Liviu I

Subject

• Morse theorie
• Morse theory
• Morse, Théorie de

Language

eng

Summary

"This self-contained treatment of Morse Theory focuses on applications and is intended for a graduate course on differential or algebraic topology. The book is divided into three conceptually distinct parts. The first part contains the foundations of Morse theory (over the reals). The second part consists of applications of Morse theory over the reals, while the last part describes the basics and some applications of complex Morse theory, a.k.a. Picard-Lefschetz theory. This is the first textbook to include topics such as Morse-Smale flows, min-max theory, moment maps and equivariant cohomology, and complex Morse theory. The exposition is enhanced with examples, problems, and illustrations, and will be of interest to graduate students as well as researchers. The reader is expected to have some familiarity with cohomology theory and with the differential and integral calculus on smooth manifolds"--Publisher description

Member of

• Universitext

Cataloging source

UKM

Dewey number

514.74

Index

index present

LC call number

QA331

LC item number

.N498 2007

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

Universitext