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Morse functions with regular level sets consisting of $2$-dimensional spheres, $2$-dimensional tori, or Klein Bottles

Geometric Topology 2026-04-07 v1 Combinatorics

Abstract

In this paper, we study Morse functions with regular level sets consisting of spheres, tori, or Klein Bottles on 33-dimensional closed manifolds. We characterize 33-dimensional manifolds represented by connected sums each of whose summands is the product S1×S2S^1 \times S^2 of the circle S1S^1 and the sphere S2S^2, lens spaces, or non-orientable closed and connected manifolds of genus 11 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 33-dimensional orientable manifolds represented by connected sums each of whose summands is the product S1×S2S^1 \times S^2, lens spaces, or torus bundles over S1S^1 by a certain class of Morse-Bott functions. We also classify Morse functions with given regular level sets consisting of S2S^2, S1×S1S^1 \times S^1, or Klein Bottles in a certain sense, generalizing some previous work by the author.

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@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}
}

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14 pages. 7 figures