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Farber, Michael and Belolipetsky, Mikhail (2008) Homological category weights and estimates for cat1(X,ξ). Journal of the European Mathematical Society, Vol.10 (No.1). pp. 243-266. doi:10.4171/JEMS/110 ISSN 1435-9855.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.4171/JEMS/110
Abstract
In this paper we study a new notion of category weight of homology classes developing further the ideas of E. Fadell and S. Husseini. In the case of closed smooth manifolds the homological category weight is equivalent to the cohomological category weight of E. Fadell and S. Husseini but these two notions are distinct already for Poincar\\'e complexes. An important advantage of the homological category weight is its homotopy invariance. We use the notion of homological category weight to study various generalizations of the Lusternik - Schnirelmann category which appeared in the theory of closed one-forms and have applications in dynamics. Our primary goal is to compare two such invariants cat(X,xi) and cat1(X,xi) which are defined similarly with reversion of the order of quantifiers. We compute these invariants explicitly for products of surfaces and show that they may differ by an arbitrarily large quantity. The proof of one of our main results uses an algebraic characterization of homology classes zinHi(tildeX;Z) (where tildeXtoX is a free abelian covering) which are movable to infinity of tildeX with respect to a prescribed cohomology class xiinH1(X;R). This result is established in Part II which can be read independently of the rest of the paper.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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Subjects: | Q Science > QA Mathematics | ||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Mathematics | ||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Journal of the European Mathematical Society | ||||
Publisher: | European Mathematical Society Publishing House | ||||
ISSN: | 1435-9855 | ||||
Official Date: | 2008 | ||||
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Volume: | Vol.10 | ||||
Number: | No.1 | ||||
Page Range: | pp. 243-266 | ||||
DOI: | 10.4171/JEMS/110 | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
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