Higher Reidemeister torsion and parametrized Morse theory
This paper constitutes a summary of the author’s Ph.D. thesis [The cell complex construction and higher -torsion for bundles with framed Morse function (Brandeis Univ. 1989)]. Proofs of the results cited here will appear elsewhere.The first section is devoted to outlining a means of passing in a continuous way from the space of pairs , where is a compact smooth manifold and is a Morse function on , into a moduli space for finite cell complexes.In section two the results of section one are...