Floer Homology: From Generalized Morse-Smale Dynamical Systems to Forman's Combinatorial Vector Fields

05/06/2021
by   Marzieh Eidi, et al.
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We construct a Floer type boundary operator for generalised Morse-Smale dynamical systems on compact smooth manifolds by counting the number of suitable flow lines between closed (both homoclinic and periodic) orbits and isolated critical points. The same principle works for the discrete situation of general combinatorial vector fields, defined by Forman, on CW complexes. We can thus recover the ℤ_2 homology of both smooth and discrete structures directly from the flow lines (V-paths) of our vector field.

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