Restrictions on special generic maps into ${\mathbb{R}}^5$ on $6$-dimensional or higher dimensional closed and simply-connected manifolds (2201.09437v5)

Abstract: The class of special generic maps is a natural class of smooth maps containing Morse functions on spheres with exactly two singular points and canonical projections of unit spheres. We find new restrictions on such maps on $6$-dimensional or higher dimensional closed and simply-connected manifolds into ${\mathbb{R}}^5$. Spheres which are not diffeomorphic to unit spheres do not admit such maps whose codimensions are negative in considerable cases. They restrict the homeomorphism and the diffeomorphism types of the manifolds in general. On the other hands, some elementary manifolds admit special generic maps into suitable Euclidean spaces: manifolds represented as connected sums of products of unit spheres are of such examples. This motivates us to study the (non-)existence of special generic maps on elementary manifolds such as projective spaces and some closed and simply-connected manifolds. For example, new explicit investigations of cohomology rings are keys in our new study.