Morse functions with regular level sets consisting of $2$-dimensional spheres, $2$-dimensional tori, or Klein Bottles
Abstract
In this paper, we study Morse functions with regular level sets consisting of spheres, tori, or Klein Bottles on -dimensional closed manifolds. We characterize -dimensional manifolds represented by connected sums each of whose summands is the product of the circle and the sphere , lens spaces, or non-orientable closed and connected manifolds of genus by a certain subclass of such Morse functions. This is a kind of extensions of the orientable case, by Saeki, in 2006. This is a variant of its extension by the author for -dimensional orientable manifolds represented by connected sums each of whose summands is the product , lens spaces, or torus bundles over by a certain class of Morse-Bott functions. We also classify Morse functions with given regular level sets consisting of , , or Klein Bottles in a certain sense, generalizing some previous work by the author.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2604.04910,
title = {Morse functions with regular level sets consisting of $2$-dimensional spheres, $2$-dimensional tori, or Klein Bottles},
author = {Naoki Kitazawa},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.04910},
year = {2026}
}
Comments
14 pages. 7 figures