Essential category weight and phantom maps
This paper is about maps of infinite essential category weight and their relationship with phantom maps. A map \(f\) has infinite essential category weight if all composites \(f\circ g\) in which the domain of \(g\) has finite Lyusternik-Shnirel'man category are null-homotopic; the class of maps from \(X\) to \(Y\) with infinite essential category weight is denoted \(E(X,Y)\). A map \(f\) is a phantom map if all composites \(f\circ g\) in which the domain of \(g\) is a finite-dimensional CW complex are null-homotopic; the class of phantom maps from \(X\) to \(Y\) is denoted \(\text{Ph}(X,Y)\). It is known that \(E(X,Y)\subset\text{Ph}(X,Y)\); the author shows that the converse is false in general but is true if the loop space of \(X\) is homotopy equivalent to a finite-dimensional CW complex. He shows that \(E(X,Y)\) has various properties in common with \(\text{Ph}(X,Y)\); for example, there are analogues of universal phantom maps. As an application, he shows that \(\text{Ph}(X,Y)\) has a natural abelian group structure if \(Y\) is grouplike. There is an appendix summarizing results on essential category weight. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0966.00032].
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