1923-2023, Centenaire de René Thom

Collection 1923-2023, Centenaire de René Thom

Organizer(s) Jean-Pierre Bourguignon (IHES)
Date(s) 20/09/2023 - 22/09/2023
linked URL https://indico.math.cnrs.fr/event/9880/
00:00:00 / 00:00:00
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Doors open by Thom in Morse theory and towards the h-principle

By Emmanuel Giroux

We will review the content and the influence of two papers by R. Thom. The first is his 1949 note "sur une partition en cellules associée à une fonction sur une variété" where he exhibits the cell decomposition provided by any gradient of a Morse function ; we will also discuss the two unpublished manuscripts dated 1957 where Thom applies Morse Theory to analyze the topology of complex affine algebraic/analytic manifolds. The second article is the 1959 paper "remarques sur les problèmes comportant des inéquations différentielles globales" where Thom scatters seeds for the general study of open differential relations, a theme that Gromov will later embrace in the vast theory of the H-principle.

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