Graduate Student Seminar, 5:00pm April 19, 2004; HH127
Speaker:
Florin Dumitrescu
Title:
Morse Theory and Floer Homology
Abstract:
Morse theory is presented from the perspective of topological field theory,
approach developed by Witten. Start with a space and a "nice"
function on the space, called Morse function, and by some counting
procedure you obtain all what you wanted to know (topologically) about
your space (and even more). This approach will serve as a model for
defining (symplectic) Floer homology.
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