On reconstructing Morse-Bott functions with prescribed preimages on $3$-dimensional manifolds and conditions for the reconstruction

Abstract

We present conditions for reconstruction of Morse-Bott functions with prescribed preimages on $3$-dimensional manifolds. The present work strengthens a previous result for the Morse function case by the author and present a related example as another result. This shows a new result on reconstruction of nice smooth functions such that preimages are as prescribed. Such a study has been fundamental, natural, and surprisingly, founded recently, in 2006, by Sharko. Reconstruction of nice smooth functions on closed surfaces has been followed by Masumoto-Saeki, for example, and later, Gelbukh, Marzantowicz, Michalak, and so on, are studying Morse function cases further. The author has started explicit studies for $3$-dimensional cases respecting topologies of preimages of single points and obtained several results. We add another result on this.

7 pages. Our main result (Theorem 1) extends "Theorem 1 from arXiv:2412.20626" to a certain class of Morse-Bott functions. After the first submission of the introduced preprint to a refereed journal, we hit on an essential idea and the preprint has been rejected with several positive comments and submitted again to another refereed journal