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We present new explicit decompositions of manifolds via so-called fold maps into lower dimensional spaces. Fold maps form a nice class of so-called generic maps, generalizing Morse functions naturally. To understand the topologies and the…

General Topology · Mathematics 2022-11-28 Naoki Kitazawa

Motivated by the definition of the smooth manifold structure on a suitable mapping space, we consider the general problem of how to transfer local properties from a smooth space to an associated mapping space. This leads to the notion of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-01-24 Andrew Stacey

The Reeb space of a function or a map on a manifold is defined as the space of all connected components of preimages and represents the manifold compactly. In fact, Reeb spaces are fundamental and useful tools in geometric theory of…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2022-03-01 Naoki Kitazawa

Surfaces of finite geometric type are complete, immersed into the tree-dimensional Euclidean space with finite total curvature and Gauss map extending to an oriented compact surface as a smooth branched covering map over the unit sphere of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-06-24 Nícolas A. de Andrade , Luquesio P. Jorge

Reeb spaces of continuous real-valued functions on topological spaces are fundamental and strong tools in investigating the spaces. The Reeb space is the natural quotient space of the space of the domain represented by connected components…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-13 Naoki Kitazawa

The Reeb space of a continuous map is the space of all (elements representing) connected components of preimages endowed with the quotient topology induced from the natural equivalence relation on the domain. These objects are strong tools…

General Topology · Mathematics 2021-06-15 Naoki Kitazawa

Morse functions are important objects and tools in understanding topologies of manifolds since the 20th century. Their classification has been natural and difficult problems, and surprisingly, this is recently developing. Since the 2010's,…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2024-11-28 Naoki Kitazawa

We discuss reconstructing smooth real algebraic maps onto curves whose Reeb graph is as prescribed. This can be contributed to real algebraic geometry, especially in explicit examples in real algebraic geometry in a new way. The Reeb graph…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-07-22 Naoki Kitazawa

Reeb spaces of real-valued functions on manifolds are the spaces of all connected components (contours) of level sets and endowed with the natural quotient topology. They have been fundamental and strong tools in investigating manifolds via…

General Topology · Mathematics 2026-03-02 Naoki Kitazawa

This paper investigates which smooth manifolds arise as quotients (orbit spaces) of flows of vector fields. Such quotient maps were already known to be surjective on fundamental groups, but this paper shows that every epimorphism of…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2017-03-14 Robert E. Gompf

In this note we obtain the surjectivity of smooth maps into Euclidean spaces under mild conditions. As application we give a new proof of the Fundamental Theorem of Algebra. We also observe that any $C^1$-map from a compact manifold into…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2017-06-23 Peng Liu , Shibo Liu

In our previous work, we have constructed explicit smooth real algebraic functions which may have both compact and non-compact preimages on smooth real algebraic manifolds. This paper presents its variant. Our result is new in obtaining…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2023-05-25 Naoki Kitazawa

We study spaces with a cuspidal (or horn-like) singularity embedded in a smooth Riemannian manifold and analyze the geodesics in these spaces which start at the singularity. This provides a basis for understanding the intrinsic geometry of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-02-18 Vincent Grandjean , Daniel Grieser

In the author's earlier work there appeared a new way to specify any smooth closed 4-manifold by a surface diagram, which consists of an orientable surface decorated with simple closed curves. These curves are cyclically indexed, and each…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2018-04-26 Jonathan D. Williams

Previously, we have systematically constructed explicit real algebraic functions which are represented as the compositions of smooth real algebraic maps whose images are domains surrounded by hypersurfaces of degree 1 or 2 with canonical…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2023-04-20 Naoki Kitazawa

We say that a topologically embedded 3-sphere in a smoothing of Euclidean 4-space is a barrier provided, roughly, no diffeomorphism of the 4-manifold moves the 3-sphere off itself. In this paper we construct infinitely many one parameter…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Laurence R. Taylor

An oriented compact closed manifold is called inflexible if the set of mapping degrees ranging over all continuous self-maps is finite. Inflexible manifolds have become of importance in the theory of functorial semi-norms on homology.…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2011-09-06 Manuel Amann

We study a family of mappings from the powers of the unit tangent sphere at a point to a complete Riemannian manifold with non-positive sectional curvature, whose behavior is related to the spherical mean operator and the geodesic random…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-03-17 Pablo Lessa , Lucas Oliveira

Biharmonic and conformal-biharmonic maps are two fourth-order generalizations of the well-studied notion of harmonic maps in Riemannian geometry. In this article we consider maps into the Euclidean sphere and investigate a geometric…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-03-09 Volker Branding

A Morse 2-function is a generic smooth map from a smooth manifold to a surface. In the absence of definite folds (in which case we say that the Morse 2-function is indefinite), these are natural generalizations of broken (Lefschetz)…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2016-01-20 David T. Gay , Robion Kirby