Thursday, April 16, 2026 2:30 pm
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4:00 pm
EDT (GMT -04:00)
Alex Pawelko, University of Waterloo
Morse Theory via Harmonic Oscillators
We will discuss the approach to Morse Theory originally due to Witten, where one constructs deformed Laplaceoperators whose low-energy eigenvectors concentrate near the critical points of one's Morse function, and thenuses Hodge theory to relate this to de Rham cohomology.
MC 5403