Etymology

Floer homology

Today it means: A tool for studying symplectic geometry and low-dimensional topology. It is a novel invariant that arises as an infinite-dimensional analog of finite-dimensional Morse homology. Full definition →

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The story

Introduced by Andreas Floer.

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