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Examples of smooth maps with finitely many critical points in dimensions $(4,3)$, $(8,5)$ and $(16,9)$

Louis Funar, Cornel Pintea, Ping Zhang

Published 2008-03-05, updated 2008-07-21Version 2

We consider manifolds $M^{2n}$ which admit smooth maps into a connected sum of $S^1\times S^n$ with only finitely many critical points, for $n\in\{2,4,8\}$, and compute the minimal number of critical points.

Comments: 9p
Categories: math.GT
Subjects: 57R45, 55R55, 58K05, 57R60, 57R70
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