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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) S U ( 2 ) 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 +1 surgeries on connected sums of torus knots.

Authors

Boden H; Herald C; Kirk P

Series

Proceedings of Symposia in Pure Mathematics

Volume

109

Pagination

pp. 117-125

Publisher

American Mathematical Society (AMS)

Publication Date

January 1, 2024

DOI

10.1090/pspum/109/02002

Conference proceedings

Proceedings of Symposia in Pure Mathematics

ISSN

0082-0717
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