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January 15, 2014
Wednesday, January 15
Noncommutative Geometry
Time: 14:30
Speaker: Asghar Ghorbanpour (Western)
Title: "Morse inequalities through spectral geometry II"
Room: MC 108

Abstract: Study of the topological and geometric properties of a (Riemannian) manifold by investigating the spectral properties of the geometric elliptic operators, or in general elliptic complexes, is the approach of the spectral geometry. Witten, in his famous paper "Supersymmetry and Morse theory", used the spectral properties of the perturbed de Rham complex, so called Witten complex, to prove the Morse inequalities. In this talk we shall cover his proof. The idea of the proof is to use the approximations of the eigenvalues of the corresponding laplacian. In the next step, we will have an overview on Bismut's proof. Bismut puts Witten's idea in another format. He proves the inequalities by studying the long term behavior of the heat kernel.