WITTEN DEFORMATION FOR NONCOMPACT MANIFOLDS WITH BOUNDED GEOMETRY

Motivated by the Landau–Ginzburg model, we study the Witten deformation on a noncompact manifold with bounded geometry, together with some tameness condition on the growth of the Morse function f near infinity. We prove that the cohomology of the Witten deformation $d_{Tf}$ acting on the complex of smooth $L^2$ forms is isomorphic to the cohomology of the Thom–Smale complex of f as well as the relative cohomology of a certain pair $(M, U)$ for sufficiently large T. We establish an Agmon estimate for eigenforms of the Witten Laplacian which plays an essential role in identifying these cohomologies via Witten’s instanton complex, defined in terms of eigenspaces of the Witten Laplacian for small eigenvalues. As an application, we obtain the strong Morse inequalities in this setting.

Modified Novikov Operators and the Kastler-Kalau-Walze-Type Theorem for Manifolds with Boundary

In this paper, we give two Lichnerowicz-type formulas for modified Novikov operators. We prove Kastler-Kalau-Walze-type theorems for modified Novikov operators on compact manifolds with (respectively without) a boundary. We also compute the spectral action for Witten deformation on 4-dimensional compact manifolds.

Comparison between two complexes on a singular space

In this article we generalise the Witten deformation for stratified spaces and a class of Morse functions which we call radial Morse functions. In the first part of the article we perform the Witten deformation on the complex of

AN ANALYTIC APPROACH TO THE STRATIFIED MORSE INEQUALITIES FOR COMPLEX CONES

In a previous paper the author extended the Witten deformation to singular spaces with cone-like singularities and to a class of Morse functions called admissible Morse functions. The method applies in particular to complex cones and stratified Morse functions in the sense of the theory developed by Goresky and MacPherson. It is well-known from stratified Morse theory that the singular points of the complex cone contribute to the stratified Morse inequalities in middle degree only. In this paper, an analytic proof of this fact is given.

PERTURBATIONS OF BASIC DIRAC OPERATORS ON RIEMANNIAN FOLIATIONS

Using the method of Witten deformation, we express the basic index of a transversal Dirac operator over a Riemannian foliation as the sum of integers associated to the critical leaf closures of a given foliated bundle map.