The classifying space of a Morse flow category
GEOMETRY AND QUANTUM THEORY
When: April 28, 2026
4:15 pm - 6:30 pm
Where: Science Center 507
Address:
1 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, United States
Following a paper of Calle and Liu we show that, under suitable tameness assumptions, the classifying space of the Morse category associated to a manifold M with a Morse function recovers the homotopy type of M, thereby addressing a gap in a preprint of Cohen-Jones-Segal. We also give a counterexample when those assumptions are not satisfied.
