Lectures on Witten Helffer Sjöstrand Theory

dc.creatorBurghelea, Dan
dc.date1998-07-02
dc.date1998-07-29
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T05:25:15Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T05:25:15Z
dc.descriptionWitten- Helffer-Sjöstrand theory is a considerable addition to the De Rham- Hodge theory for Riemannian manifolds and can serve as a general tool to prove results about comparison of numerical invariants associated to compact manifolds analytically, i.e. by using a Riemannian metric, or combinatorially, i.e by using a triangulation. In this presentation a triangulation, or a partition of a smooth manifold in cells, will be viewed in a more analytic spirit, being provided by the stable manifolds of the gradient of a nice Morse function. WHS theory was recently used both for providing new proofs for known but difficult results in topology, as well as new results and a positive solution for an important conjecture about $L_2-$torsion, cf [BFKM]. This presentation is a short version of a one quarter course I have given during the spring of 1997 at OSU.
dc.description17 pages, AMStex, minor grammar corrections
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/math/9807008
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/math/9807008
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/77111
dc.subjectDifferential Geometry
dc.subject57R70, 58A5,12, 58C35,40 58F19, 58Q15
dc.titleLectures on Witten Helffer Sjöstrand Theory
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