Normal forms of functions with degenerate singularities on surfaces equipped with semi-free circle actions

Abstract

This article is devoted to the study of a certain class of smooth circle-valued functions on a cylinder $S^1\times [0,1]$, a torus $T^2$, a disk $D^2$ and a sphere $S^2$ which is a generalization of Morse-Bott functions without saddles. We established a "normal form" for functions from this class, namely, we proved that any such function $f$ can be presented in the form $f=\varkappa \circ f_0\circ h^{-1}$, where $f_0$ is the ``simplest'' Morse function on the given surface for some diffeomorphism $h$ and a smooth function $\varkappa$ satisfying some natural conditions.

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