Equivariant chain-level isomorphism conjecture for broken trajectories

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Let (f,g)(f,g) be a stably Morse-Smale pair, and suppose that the answer to the relevant question about stably Morse-Smale pairs is positive. Then (fϵ,g)(f^\epsilon,g) is a Morse-Smale pair and determines the usual Thom-Smale-Witten complex (Cϵ,ϵ)(C^\epsilon,\partial^\epsilon). Let (C,)(\boldsymbol{C},\boldsymbol{\partial}) be the broken-trajectory chain complex, and let GG act on both complexes.

Equivariant chain-level isomorphism conjecture. The chain complexes (Cϵ,ϵ)(C^\epsilon,\partial^\epsilon) and (C,)(\boldsymbol{C},\boldsymbol{\partial}) are isomorphic as Z[G]\mathbb{Z}[G]-complexes.

This is stronger than the conjectured isomorphism of homology groups because it identifies the complexes together with their GG-actions. It would give a direct chain-level comparison between the ordinary Thom-Smale-Witten construction and the broken-trajectory model; the necessary geometric gluing input is not yet established in the source.

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Erkao Bao, Tyler Lawson and Lina Liu, “Equivariant Morse Homology for Reflection Actions via Broken Trajectories”, arXiv:2411.16924 (2026).

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