Characterizing certain classes of $6$-dimensional closed and simply-connected manifolds via special generic maps

TL;DR

This paper establishes new necessary and sufficient conditions for 6-dimensional closed, simply-connected manifolds to admit special generic maps into Euclidean spaces, extending known results from lower dimensions and involving complex algebraic classifications.

Contribution

It provides a characterization of 6-dimensional manifolds admitting special generic maps, generalizing previous 5-dimensional results and addressing the complexity of their algebraic classification.

Findings

New criteria for 6-dimensional manifolds to admit special generic maps

Extension of Reeb's theorem variants to higher dimensions

Complete classification of 5-dimensional cases as a foundation

Abstract

The present paper finds new necessary and sufficient conditions for $6$-dimensional closed and simply-connected manifolds of certain classes to admit special generic maps into certain Euclidean spaces. The class of special generic maps naturally contains Morse functions with exactly two singular points on spheres in so-called Reeb's theorem, characterizing spheres topologically, and canonical projections of unit spheres. Our paper concerns variants of Reeb's theorem. Several results are known e. g. the cases where the manifolds of the targets are the plane and some cases where the manifolds of the domains are closed and simply-connected. Our paper concerns $6$-dimensional versions of a result of Nishioka, determining $5$-dimensional closed and simply-connected manifolds admitting special generic maps into Euclidean spaces completely. Closed and simply-connected manifolds are central geometric objects in (classical) algebraic topology and differential topology. The $6$-dimensional case is more complicated than the $5$-dimensional one: they are classified via explicit algebraic systems.