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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

This is a note on the graphs of two smooth real-valued functions in the plane with no intersection and the natural map onto the region surrounded by them with the canonical projection to the line composed, yielding its Reeb space. The Reeb…

General Topology · Mathematics 2026-03-24 Naoki Kitazawa

Reeb spaces of (continuous) real-valued functions on (nice) topological spaces are the spaces whose underlying sets consist of all connected components (contours) of their level sets and seen naturally as quotient spaces of the spaces. They…

General Topology · Mathematics 2026-03-13 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

Previously, we have investigated a natural smooth map onto the region surrounded by the graphs of two smooth real-valued functions in the plane converging to a same value or diverges to $+\infty$ or $-\infty$ simultaneously, at each…

General Topology · Mathematics 2026-03-24 Naoki Kitazawa

The Reeb graph is a construction which originated in Morse theory to study a real valued function defined on a topological space. More recently, it has been used in various applications to study noisy data which creates a desire to define a…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-11-30 Vin de Silva , Elizabeth Munch , Amit Patel

The Reeb graph of a function on a smooth manifold is the graph obtained as the space of all connected components of level sets such that the set of all vertices coincides with the set of all connected components of level sets including…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2021-07-28 Naoki Kitazawa

To investigate the topological structure of Morse functions on the projective plane we use the Reeb graphs. We describe it properties and prove that it is a complete topological invariant of simple Morse function on $\mathbb{R} P^2$. We…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2023-03-08 Svitlana Bilun , Alexandr Prishlyak , Serhii Stas , Alina Vlasenko

The Reeb space of a smooth function is a topological and combinatoric object and fundamental and important in understanding topological and geometric properties of the manifold of the domain. It is the graph and a topological space endowed…

General Topology · Mathematics 2024-12-29 Naoki Kitazawa

As a higher dimensional version of the theory of Morse functions, there have been various studies of smooth manifolds using generic smooth maps. As fundamental results, in these studies, they have found that inverse images of such maps…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2018-12-21 Naoki Kitazawa

The Reeb graph of a smooth function is a graph being a natural quotient space of the manifold of the domain and the space of all connected components of preimages. Such a combinatorial and topological object roughly and compactly represents…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2023-08-10 Naoki Kitazawa

The paper surveys some new results and open problems connected with such fundamental combinatorial concepts as polytopes, simplicial complexes, cubical complexes, and subspace arrangements. Particular attention is paid to the case of…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Victor M. Buchstaber , Taras E. Panov

For a smooth function on a smooth manifold of a suitable class, the space of all connected components of preimages is the graph and called the {\it Reeb graph}. Reeb graphs are fundamental tools in the algebraic and differential topological…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2022-03-28 Naoki Kitazawa

A Reeb space is defined as the space of all the connected components of inverse images of a smooth map, which is a fundamental tool in studying smooth manifolds using generic smooth maps whose codimensions are not positive such as Morse…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2018-05-29 Naoki Kitazawa

A theory of sections of simplicial height functions is developed. At the core of this theory lies the section complex, which is assembled from higher section spaces. The latter encode flow lines along the height, as well as their…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2022-02-01 Melvin Vaupel , Erik Hermansen , Paul Trygsland

In this work, we introduce a combinatorial-geometric model for the space of discrete Morse functions on any CW complex $X$. We relate this version of a space of discrete Morse functions to the space of cellular filtrations of $X$ and…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2026-02-13 Julian Brüggemann

Inspired by the works of Forman on discrete Morse theory, which is a combinatorial adaptation to cell complexes of classical Morse theory on manifolds, we introduce a discrete analogue of the stratified Morse theory of Goresky and…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Kevin Knudson , Bei Wang

The theory of Morse functions and their higher dimensional versions or fold maps on manifolds and its application to geometric theory of manifolds is one of important branches of geometry and mathematics. Studies related to this was started…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2020-07-21 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

The Reeb space of a smooth map whose codimension is minus is the space defined as the space of all connected components of inverse images. For generic maps such as Morse functions and their higher dimensional versions, they are polyhedra…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2019-01-17 Naoki Kitazawa
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