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can be interpreted in terms of homology. us, we have the following description of the homology
of a manifold M [ 90 ]:
1 .a;b/ contains only one critical
point p of f , of index , and let ' p be the attaching map of the -cell corresponding to p . en:
eorem 8.4
Let a;b be real numbers such that a < b and f
(a) if and k¤1 then H k .M b /H k .M a /
(b) H 1 .M b /H 1 .M a /=ImH 1 .' p /
(c) H .M b /H .M a /KerH 1 .' p /
is means that, depending on the attaching map ' p , only the homology degrees 1 and
can be affected by the adjunction of a -cell. In particular, the Betti number 1 can decrease
and can increase. For example, in the case shown in Figure 8.4 , when we pass through the
critical point p according to the increasing value of f , a tunnel is created, and 1 increases from
the value 0 to the value 1.
is characterization gives a hint of the ideas underlying Reeb graphs, size theory, topo-
logical persistence and Morse shape descriptors, detailed in chapters 9 , 10 and 11 .
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