Metric invariance of the homology of traversally generic differential complexes

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Let MM be a compact connected smooth nn-manifold with boundary, let gg be a traversally generic Riemannian metric on MM, and let R\mathsf R be a commutative ring. The metric gg determines the differential complexes C℧∗(SM∘,g;R)\mathbf C_\mho^\ast(SM^\circ,g;\mathsf R) and C℧∗(D(SM),g;R)\mathbf C_\mho^\ast(D(SM),g;\mathsf R) of free R\mathsf R-modules, with terms and differentials defined from the indicated relative cohomology constructions and boundary homomorphisms.

Metric-invariance conjecture. The homology groups of these differential complexes depend only on the connected component of the space of traversally generic metrics on MM containing gg.

The complexes package the stratification data associated with the geodesic flow and are intended to provide localized Poincare-duality invariants. The source states the construction and componentwise invariance, but gives no evidence of a resolution, so the claim is recorded as open.

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Gabriel Katz, “Applying Gromov's Amenable Localization to Geodesic Flows”, arXiv:1710.06151 (2020).

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