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 Equivariant Morse theory, old and new

 

Jonathan Weitsman

(U.C. Santa Cruz)
 
 

Brandeis

317 Goldsmith

4:30 p.m., Thursday, March 25, 1999


 
 
Abstract:  In 1980 R. Bott gave a series of lectures on Morse theory, old and new, which ended with a conjectured application, due to Atiyah and Bott, of equivariant Morse theory to the Yang-Mills functional. We review developments in equivariant Morse theory since that time, ending with a new approach to Morse theory in the case studied by Atiyah and Bott.  


 

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