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

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Is there a bound on the length of the longest Morse trajectory?

If everything in sight is real-analytic you can use Łojasiewicz's results to bound the Morse trajectories. See e.g. Andrzej Lenarcik, On the Lojasiewicz exponent of the gradient of a polynomial functi …
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Yang-Mills and Chern-Simons functionals as Morse functions

There's a generalization of Morse-Bott called Morse-Bott-Kirwan that you can read about in Kirwan's book. Basically this condition guarantees that the unstable sets are manifolds, but not the stable …
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