On Smooth Maps with Finitely Many Critical Points

DOI10.1112/S0024610704005320MaRDI QIDQ4819162zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Dorin Andrica, Louis Funar

Publication date 24 September 2004

Published in Journal of the London Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0106020

zbMATH Keywords

critical pointsexotic spheres

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Singularities of differentiable mappings in differential topology (57R45) Homotopy spheres, Poincaré conjecture (57R60) Critical points and critical submanifolds in differential topology (57R70) Critical points of functions and mappings on manifolds (58K05)

Abstract: We compute the minimum number of critical points of a small codimension smooth map between two manifolds. We give as well some partial results for the case of higher codimension when the manifolds are spheres.

Review text

Let \(\varphi(M,N)\) be the minimum cardinality of the set of critical points of smooth maps \(f: M\to N\) with \(\partial M=f^{-1}(\partial N)\) and without critical point on \(\partial M\). The authors prove the following theorem: Assume that \(M^m, N^n\) are compact orientable manifolds and \(\varphi(M,n)\) is finite, where \(0\leq m-n\leq 3\) and \((m,n)\in\{(2,2),(4,3),(4,2),(5,3),(5,2),(6,3)(8,5)\}\). If \(m-n=3\), then we also assume that the Poincaré conjecture in dimension 3 is true. Then \(\varphi(M,n)\in \{0,1\}\), and \(\varphi(M,N)=1\) precisely when the following two conditions are fulfilled. (i) \(M\) is diffeomorphic to the connected sum \(\widehat N \#\Sigma^m\), where \(\Sigma^m\) is an exotic sphere and \(\widehat N\) is an \(m\)-manifold which fibers over \(N\). (ii) \(M\) does not fiber over \(N\). The authors also compute \(\varphi (S^m, S^n)\) for some \(m,n\) and, in particular, prove that if \(\varphi(S^{2n-2}, S^n)\) is finite then \(n\in\{2,3,5,9\}\). In the addendum the authors give some alternative proofs, esp. to Proposition 4.1.

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