Morse theory could be very well be called critical point theory. The idea is that by understanding the critical points of a smooth function on your manifold, you can recover the topology of your space. This basic idea has blossomed into many Morse theories. For instance, Robin Forman developed a combinatorial adaptation called discrete morse theory. We also have Morse-Bott theory, where we cons...

We consider the problem of prescribing conformally scalar curvature on compact manifolds positive Yamabe class in dimension . prove new existence results using Morse theory and some analysis blowing-up solutions under suitable pinching conditions function. also provide nonexistence showing sharpness our assumptions, both terms structure prescribed © 2021 Wiley Periodicals LLC.

Inspired by the works of Forman on discrete Morse theory, which is a combinatorial adaptation to cell complexes of classical Morse theory on manifolds, we introduce a discrete analogue of the stratified Morse theory of Goresky and MacPherson [17]. We describe the basics of this theory and prove fundamental theorems relating the topology of a general simplicial complex with the critical simplice...

In 1974, Mark Goresky and Robert MacPherson began their development of intersection homology theory (see [24] in these volumes), and their first paper on this topic appeared in 1980; see [12]. At that time, they were missing a fundamental tool which was available for the study of smooth manifolds; they had no Morse Theory for stratified spaces. Goresky and MacPherson wished to have a Stratified...