Special gradient trajectories counted by simplex straightening
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Author(s)
Alpert, Hannah (Hannah Chang)
Advisor(s)
Larry Guth.
Date Issued
2016
Publisher
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Abstract
We prove three theorems based on lemmas of Gromov involving the simplicial norm on stratified spaces. First, the Gromov singular fiber theorem (with proof originally sketched by Gromov) relates the simplicial norm to the number of maximum multiplicity critical points of a smooth map of manifolds that drops in dimension by 1. Second, the multitangent trajectory theorem (proved with Gabriel Katz) relates the simplicial norm to the number of maximum-multiplicity tangent trajectories of a nowhere-vanishing gradient-like vector field on a manifold with boundary. And third, the Morse broken trajectory theorem relates the simplicial volume to the number of maximally broken trajectories of the gradient flow of a Morse--Smale function. Corollary: a Morse function on a closed hyperbolic manifold must have a critical point of every Morse index.
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Thesis: Ph. D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Mathematics, 2016.
Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 65-67).
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Mathematics.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mathematics
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