Revisiting the Cohen-Jones-Segal construction in Morse-Bott theory

Ciprian Mircea Bonciocat

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Revisiting the Cohen-Jones-Segal construction in Morse-Bott theory

Ciprian Mircea Bonciocat

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In 1995, Cohen, Jones and Segal proposed a method of upgrading any given Floer homology to a stable homotopy-valued invariant. For a generic pseudo-gradient Morse-Bott flow on a closed smooth manifold $M$, we rigorously construct the alleged stable normal framings, which are an essential ingredient in their construction, and give a rigorous proof that the resulting stable homotopy type recovers $\Sigma^\infty_+ M$. We further show that other systems of compatible stable normal framings recover Thom spectra $M^E$, for all reduced $KO$-theory classes $E$ on $M$. Our paper also includes a construction of the smooth corner structure on compactified moduli spaces of broken flow lines with free endpoint, a formal construction of Piunikhin-Salamon-Schwarz type continuation maps, and a way to relax the stable normal framing condition to orientability in orthogonal spectra.

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Ciprian Mircea Bonciocat. 2024-09-17. Revisiting the Cohen-Jones-Segal construction in Morse-Bott theory. https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.11278

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