Reeb spaces of smooth functions on manifolds II
Osamu Saeki · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2023
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 several explicit examples of smooth functions on closed manifolds such that they themselves or their Reeb spaces have some interesting properties.