Morse Functions
Suppose that is a Morse function on an -dimensional manifold, and suppose that is a critical value with exactly one critical point in its preimage. If the index of this critical point is, then the level-set is obtained from by a -surgery. The inverse image defines a cobordism that can be identified with the trace of this surgery.
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