Topology Of Angle Valued Maps Bar Codes And Jordan Blocks

Download or read book Topology of Angle Valued Maps, Bar Codes and Jordan Blocks written by Dan Burghelea and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this paper one presents a collection of results relating the \bar codes" and \Jordan blocks", a new class of invariants for a tame angle valued map, with the topology of underlying space (and map). As a consequence one proposes refinements of Betti numbers and Novikov{Betti numbers provided by a continuous real or angle valued map defined on a compact ANR. These refinements can be interpreted as monic polynomials of degree the Betti numbers or Novikov{Betti numbers. One shows that these polynomials depend continuously on the real or the angle valued map and satisfy a Poincaré duality property in case the underlying space is a closed manifold. Our work offers an alternative perspective on Morse{Novikov theory which can be applied to a considerably larger class of spaces and maps and provides features inexistent in classical Morse{Novikov theory.