Singular levels and topological invariants of Morse Bott integrable systems on surfaces

Abstract We classify up to homeomorphisms closed curves and eights of saddle points on orientable closed surfaces. This classification is applied to Morse Bott foliations and Morse Bott integrable systems allowing us to define a complete invariant. We state also a realization Theorem based in two transformations and one generator (the foliation of the sphere with two centers).