Secondary LS category of measured laminations (Q2339731)

The LS category of a space \(X\) is the smallest number of open and (in \(X\)) contractible subsets needed to cover \(X\). Versions of this homotopy invariant are the tangential category for foliations, where leafwise contractions to transversals are considered, and the measured category, which depends on a transverse invariant measure. The author shows that the measured category vanishes in laminations that have complete transversals with arbitrarily small measures. When the measured category converges to zero, he defines a new invariant, the secondary measured category, that depends on the rate of convergence to zero. He shows that this category is a transverse invariant and has deep relations to the growth of pseudo groups.