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Morse theory?


Who?
Carsten Schultz
When?
2009/11/13, 16:00
Where?
SR 031, Arnimallee 6, FU
About what?

A Morse function on a differentiable manifold is a real valued function with only nice critical points. The idea behind Morse Theory is to use a function like this to obtain global information on the manifold. We will have a look at some instances of this approach.