On a classification of Morse functions on $3$-dimensional manifolds represented as connected sums of manifolds of Heegaard genus one

TL;DR

This paper classifies Morse functions on certain 3-dimensional manifolds formed by connected sums of genus-one manifolds, focusing on functions with specific preimage structures, advancing understanding of their topological properties.

Contribution

It provides a detailed classification of Morse functions on 3-manifolds constructed from genus-one components, extending prior surface case results to higher dimensions.

Findings

Classification of Morse functions on connected sums of genus-one 3-manifolds.

Identification of conditions for the existence of such Morse functions.

Analysis of the structure of these Morse functions.

Abstract

Morse functions are important objects and tools in understanding topologies of manifolds since the 20th century. Their classification has been natural and difficult problems, and surprisingly, this is recently developing. Since the 2010's, results for cases of surfaces have been presented by Gelbukh, Marzantowicz and Michalak for example. We have also longed for higher dimensional cases. We present a classification of Morse functions on $3$-dimensional manifolds represented as connected sums of manifolds of Heegaard genus one. We concentrate on Morse functions such that preimages of single points containing no singular points are disjoint unions of spheres and tori. Existence of such functions implies that the $3$-dimensional closed and connected manifolds are of such manifolds. This has been shown by Saeki in 2006 and we further study structures of these functions.