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Nash and Tognoli show that smooth closed manifolds can be the zero sets of some real polynomial maps and non-singular. The canonical projections of spheres naturally embedded in the $1$-dimensional higher Euclidean spaces and some natural…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2024-04-09 Naoki Kitazawa

The Reeb space of a continuous function is the space of connected components of the level sets. In this paper we first prove that the Reeb space of a smooth function on a closed manifold with finitely many critical values has the structure…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2020-06-03 Osamu Saeki

An algebraic domain is a closed topological subsurface of a real affine plane whose boundary consists of disjoint smooth connected components of real algebraic plane curves. We study the geometric shape of an algebraic domain by collapsing…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2023-06-09 Arnaud Bodin , Patrick Popescu-Pampu , Miruna-Stefana Sorea

The Reeb graph $\mathcal{R}(f) $ is one of the fundamental invariants of a smooth function $f\colon M\to \mathbb{R} $ with isolated critical points. It is defined as the quotient space $M/_{\!\sim}$ of the closed manifold $M$ by a relation…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2016-03-08 Marek Kaluba , Wacław Marzantowicz , Nelson Silva

The Reeb space of a continuous function is the space of connected components of the level sets. In this paper we characterize those smooth functions on closed manifolds whose Reeb spaces have the structure of a finite graph. We also give…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2023-08-14 Osamu Saeki

The Reeb space of a generic map is the space of all connected components of preimages of the map. Reeb spaces are fundamental and useful tools in the theory of Morse functions and higher dimensional variants and their applications to…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2021-11-02 Naoki Kitazawa

We investigate the problem of the realization of a given graph as the Reeb graph $\mathcal{R}(f)$ of a smooth function $f\colon M\rightarrow \mathbb{R}$ with finitely many critical points, where $M$ is a closed manifold. We show that for…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2019-01-16 Łukasz Patryk Michalak

Algebraic domains are regions in the plane surrounded by mutually disjoint non-singular real algebraic curves. Poincar'e-Reeb Graphs of them are graphs they naturally collapse: such graphs are formally formulated by Sorea, for example,…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-03-04 Naoki Kitazawa

Refined algebraic domains are regions in the plane surrounded by finitely many non-singular real algebraic curves which may intersect with normal crossing. We are interested in shapes of such regions with surrounding real algebraic curves.…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-03-13 Naoki Kitazawa

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 discuss a problem on singularity theory of differentiable (smooth) or real algebraic maps which is different from knowing existence and has been difficult: constructing explcit real algebraic functions. We discuss construction of real…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-06-24 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

We introduce the notion of domain of finite type $\mathscr{D}\subset\mathbb{R}^n$ generalizing an earlier work of Bodin, Popescu-Pampu and Sorea. Then, we prove that every finite graph admitting a good orientation whose vertices have degree…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-24 Enrico Savi

We present new real algebraic maps of non-positive codimensions with prescribed images whose boundaries consist of explicit non-singular real algebraic hypersurfaces satisfying so-called "transversality" as follows. Explicit information on…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2024-09-17 Naoki Kitazawa

Morse functions with exactly two singular points on homotopy spheres and canonical projections of spheres are generalized as special generic maps. A special generic map is, roughly, a smooth map represented as the composition of a smooth…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-03-28 Naoki Kitazawa

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

We are interested in arrangements of circles and the regions surrounded by them. {\it Poincar\'e-Reeb graphs} have been fundamental and strong tools in studying shapes of regions surrounded by real algebraic curves, since around 2020. They…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-03-04 Naoki Kitazawa

Constructing Morse functions and their higher dimensional versions or fold maps is fundamental, important and challenging in investigating the topologies and the differentiable structures of differentiable manifolds via Morse functions,…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2020-11-12 Naoki Kitazawa

We prove that every smooth closed manifold admits a smooth real-valued function with only two critical values. We call a function of this type a \emph{Reeb function}. We prove that for a Reeb function we can prescribe the set of minima (or…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-06-02 Antonio Lerario , Chiara Meroni , Daniele Zuddas

The present paper finds new necessary and sufficient conditions for $6$-dimensional closed and simply-connected manifolds of certain classes to admit special generic maps into certain Euclidean spaces. The class of special generic maps…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2023-12-19 Naoki Kitazawa