Morse-Smale Flows on a Tilted Torus
Morse-Smale Flows on a Tilted Torus
This Demonstration shows the gradient flows of the height function on a tilted torus. It illustrates the basic concepts of Morse theory: the critical points of a Morse–Smale function and their stable and unstable manifolds. The position of a point on the tilted torus is determined by two parametrization angles and , which define a local coordinate system at each point of the torus. The parameter (which can be negative) controls the duration of the flow.
-π ≤ α ≤ π
-π ≤ β ≤ π
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