A cohomological lower bound for the transverse LS category of a foliated manifold (Q1928892)

The author proves that the saturated transverse Lusternik-Schnirelmann category of a compact Hausdorff foliation is bounded below by the length of the cup product in the subalgebra of cohomology classes with positive transverse degree in the \(E_2\) term of the spectral sequence of the foliation. The interest of this result is that the \(E_2\) terms of the spectral sequence of a Riemannian foliation on a compact manifold are known to be finite dimensional.