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Examples of homology 3-spheres whose Chern-Simons function is not Morse-Bott

Abstract

We construct two homology 3-spheres for which the (unperturbed) $SU(2)$ Chern-Simons function is not Morse-Bott. In one case, there is a degenerate isolated critical point. In the other, a path component of the critical set is not homeomorphic to a manifold. The examples are $+1$ surgeries on connected sums of torus knots.

Authors

Boden HU; Herald C; Kirk P

Journal

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Publication Date

January 9, 2023

DOI

10.48550/arxiv.2301.03676
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