Real algebraic functions on closed manifolds whose Reeb graphs are given graphs

DOI10.31392/MFAT-NPU26_4.2022.03MaRDI QIDQ6186800zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Naoki Kitazawa

Publication date 2 February 2024

Published in Methods of Functional Analysis and Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.02339

zbMATH Keywords

Kronrod-Reeb graphsPoincaré-Reeb graphreal algebraic domainsreal algebraic manifolds

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Algebraic topology on manifolds and differential topology (57R19) Singularities of differentiable mappings in differential topology (57R45) Real-valued functions on manifolds (58C05)

Abstract: 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 graph which is the quotient space of the manifold of the domain under a natural equivalence relation for some wide and nice class of smooth functions. The vertex set is defined as the set of all connected components containing some singular points of the function: a singular point of a smooth function is a point where the differential vanishes. Morse-Bott functions give very specific cases. The relation is to contract each connected component of each preimage to a point. Sharko has asked a natural and important problem: can we construct a nice smooth function whose Reeb graph is a given graph? Explicit answers have been given first by Masumoto-Saeki in a generalized manner for closed surfaces. After that various answers have been presented by various researchers and most of them are essentially for functions on closed surfaces and Morse functions such that connected components of preimages containing no singular points are spheres. Recently the author has also considered questions and solved in cases the preimages are general manifolds.

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