A Morse theoretic description of the Goresky-Hingston product

Abstract

The Goresky-Hingston coproduct was first introduced by D. Sullivan and later extended by M. Goresky and N. Hingston. In this article we give a Morse theoretic description of the coproduct. Using the description we prove homotopy invariance property of the coproduct. We describe a connection between our Morse theoretic coproduct and a coproduct on Floer homology of cotangent bundle.