Examples of smooth maps with finitely many critical points in dimensions   $(4,3)$, $(8,5)$ and $(16,9)$
  We consider manifolds $M^{2n}$ which admit smooth maps into a connected sum of $S^1\times S^n$ with only finitely many critical points, for $n\in\{2,4,8\}$, and compute the minimal number of critical points. 
Louis Funar (IF), Cornel Pintea (University of Cluj), Ping Zhang   (Eastern Mediterranean University)