Morse theory from an algebraic viewpoint

Morse Theory from an Algebraic Viewpoint

Forman’s discrete Morse theory is studied from an algebraic viewpoint, and we show how this theory can be extended to chain complexes of modules over arbitrary rings. As applications we compute the homologies of a certain family of nilpotent Lie algebras, and show how the algebraic Morse theory can be used to derive the classical Anick resolution as well as a new two-sided Anick resolution.

Design Theory from the Viewpoint of Algebraic Combinatorics

Characterizing completely regular codes from an algebraic viewpoint

The class of completely regular codes includes not only some of the most important error-correcting codes, such as perfect codes and uniformly packed codes, but also a number of substructures fundamental to the study of distance-regular graphs themselves. In a companion paper, we study products of completely regular codes and codes whose parameters form arithmetic progressions. This family of c...

Nicolaescu An Invitation to Morse Theory – Monograph

Morse Theory