PERFECT DISCRETE MORSE FUNCTIONS ON CONNECTED SUMS


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Varli H., PAMUK M., Kosta N. M.

HOMOLOGY HOMOTOPY AND APPLICATIONS, vol.20, no.1, pp.219-236, 2018 (SCI-Expanded, Scopus) identifier identifier

Abstract

We study perfect discrete Morse functions on closed, connected, oriented n-dimensional manifolds. We show how to compose such functions on connected sums of manifolds of arbitrary dimensions and how to decompose them on connected sums of closed oriented surfaces.