Concordance of Morse functions on manifolds

2023/12/17 by Ota, Ryosuke
#57R45 #FOS: Mathematics #Geometric Topology (math.GT)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2312.10683

Abstract

In this paper, the concordance of Morse functions is defined, and a necessary and sufficient condition for given two Morse functions to be concordant is presented and is compared with the cobordism criterion. Cobordism of Morse functions on smooth closed manifolds is an equivalence relation defined by using cobordisms of manifolds and fold maps. Given two Morse functions, it is important to decide whether they are cobordant or not, and this problem was first solved for surfaces and then for manifolds of general dimensions by Ikegami-Saeki, Kalmár, and Ikegami. On the other hand, for Morse functions on the same manifold, we can consider a stronger equivalence relation called concordance.

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