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Manifolds admitting special generic maps and their nice generalized multisections

General Topology 2022-11-01 v4 Geometric Topology

Abstract

We show that manifolds admitting special generic maps also admit nice generalized multisections. Special generic maps are natural generalized versions of Morse functions with exactly two singular points on closed manifolds, characterizing spheres whose dimensions are not 44 topologically and the 44-dimensional unit sphere, and canonical projections of unit spheres. They are shown to restrict the differentiable structures of spheres etc. and topologies of more general manifolds strongly by Saeki, Sakuma etc., followed by Nishioka, Wrazidlo etc. and followed by the author. Some elementary or important manifolds also admit such maps. (Generalized) multisections of manifolds are nice decompositions of (compact) manifolds, generalizing so-called Heegaard splittings of 33-dimensional manifolds. PL manifolds have been shown to have (generalized) multisections enjoying certain properties by Rubinstein and Tillmann.

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@article{arxiv.2210.10303,
  title  = {Manifolds admitting special generic maps and their nice generalized multisections},
  author = {Naoki Kitazawa},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2210.10303},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

16 pages, some important notions including ones related to our main new work are revised, this will be improved before submission to a refereed journal

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