Skip to main content
Search type Search syntax
Tags [tag]
Exact "words here"
Author user:1234
user:me (yours)
Score score:3 (3+)
score:0 (none)
Answers answers:3 (3+)
answers:0 (none)
isaccepted:yes
hasaccepted:no
inquestion:1234
Views views:250
Code code:"if (foo != bar)"
Sections title:apples
body:"apples oranges"
URL url:"*.example.com"
Saves in:saves
Status closed:yes
duplicate:no
migrated:no
wiki:no
Types is:question
is:answer
Exclude -[tag]
-apples
For more details on advanced search visit our help page
Results tagged with
Search options not deleted user 23571

In differential topology, Morse theory enables one to analyze the topology of a manifold by studying differentiable functions on that manifold.

9 votes
Accepted

Self-indexing Morse functions on non-compact manifolds

Since Ryan has reawakened this question, let me add a few remarks. One way to get a handle structure on a manifold $M$ is to start with a smooth triangulation of $M$, so I will assume such a triangul …
Allen Hatcher's user avatar
17 votes
Accepted

Easiest example where pseudo-isotopy fails to be the same as isotopy?

In high dimensions ($\geq 5$) the most basic examples arise on manifolds with nonempty boundary, where one requires that diffeomorphisms restrict to the identity on the boundary. The simplest case is …
Allen Hatcher's user avatar
22 votes

CW-structures and Morse functions: a reference request

The result you are looking for is Theorem 4.18 in "An Introduction to Morse Theory" by Yukio Matsumoto, published by AMS in 2002 (translated from Japanese). The connections between Morse functions, ha …
Allen Hatcher's user avatar