L 2 -estimates for the d -equation and Witten’s proof of the Morse inequalities

Bo Berndtsson[1]

  • [1] Department of Mathematics, Chalmers University of Technology and the University of Göteborg, S-412 96 Göteborg, Sweden

Annales de la faculté des sciences de Toulouse Mathématiques (2007)

  • Volume: 16, Issue: 4, page 773-797
  • ISSN: 0240-2963

Abstract

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This is an introduction to Witten’s analytic proof of the Morse inequalities. The text is directed primarily to readers whose main interest is in complex analysis, and the similarities to Hörmander’s L 2 -estimates for the ¯ -equation is used as motivation. We also use the method to prove L 2 -estimates for the d -equation with a weight e - t φ where φ is a nondegenerate Morse function.

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Berndtsson, Bo. "$L^2$-estimates for the $d$-equation and Witten’s proof of the Morse inequalities." Annales de la faculté des sciences de Toulouse Mathématiques 16.4 (2007): 773-797. <http://eudml.org/doc/10069>.

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