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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

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

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

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

Reeb spaces of smooth functions are fundamental and strong tools in understanding manifolds via smooth functions with mild critical points. They are defined as the natural spaces of all connected components of level sets. They are also…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2026-03-04 Naoki Kitazawa

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 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

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

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

We discuss smooth functions which are Morse on preimages of values not being local extrema. We call such a function internally Morse or I-Morse. The Reeb graph of a smooth function is the space of all connected components of preimages of…

General Topology · Mathematics 2025-10-13 Naoki Kitazawa

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

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

We give a new answer to so-called realization problems of graphs as Reeb graphs of smooth functions with prescribed preimages of regular values having nice structures. We present a best possible answer for functions on 3-dimensional closed…

General Topology · Mathematics 2022-01-04 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

In our paper, we construct a real-algebraic function whose Reeb (Kronrod-Reeb) graph is a graph respecting some algebraic domain: a graph for this is called Poincar\'e-Reeb graph. The Reeb graph of a smooth function is defined as a natural…

General Topology · Mathematics 2023-02-21 Naoki Kitazawa

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

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 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

There are two rather distinct approaches to Morse theory nowadays: smooth and discrete. We propose to study a real valued function by assembling all associated sections in a topological category. From this point of view, Reeb functions on…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2021-09-14 Paul Trygsland

We have been interested in graphs and realizing them as Reeb graphs of explicit real algebraic functions. The Reeb graph of a differentiable function is the quotient space of the manifold of the domain, regarded as the space consisting of…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-08-06 Naoki Kitazawa
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