Relative singular value decomposition and applications to LS-category

DOI10.1016/J.LAA.2019.07.034MaRDI QIDQ2332373zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Enrique Macias-Virgós, M. J. Pereira-Sáez, Daniel Tanré

Publication date 4 November 2019

Published in Linear Algebra and its Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.09851

zbMATH Keywords

Lusternik-Schnirelmann categoryquaternionic Stiefel manifoldsymplectic group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Matrices over special rings (quaternions, finite fields, etc.) (15B33) General properties and structure of other Lie groups (22E20) Homogeneous spaces (22F30) Lyusternik-Shnirel'man category of a space, topological complexity à la Farber, topological robotics (topological aspects) (55M30)

Abstract: Let $Sp(n)$ be the symplectic group of quaternionic $(nimesn)$-matrices. For any $1leqkleqn$, an element $A$ of $Sp(n)$ can be decomposed in $$ with $P$ a $(kimesk)$-matrix. In this work, starting from a singular value decomposition of $P$, we obtain what we call a relative singular value decomposition of $A$. This feature is well adapted for the study of the quaternionic Stiefel manifold $X_{n,k}$, and we apply it to the determination of the Lusternik-Schnirelmann category of $Sp(k)$ in $X_{2k-j,k}$, for $j=0,,1,,2$

Review text

The Lusternik-Schnirelmann (LS) category of a topological space \(X\), denoted \(\mathrm{cat}(X)\), is a homotopy invariant which is of importance in areas such as dynamical systems and symplectic geometry. But it is also very difficult to compute in general. An interesting problem is to calculate the LS-category of Lie groups. Particularly for \(\mathrm{Sp}(k)\) very little is known. In this paper the authors use a singular value decomposition of \(P\in \mathrm{Sp}(k)\) to calculate \(\mathrm{Sp}(k)\) for low values of \(k\), and for larger values present a conjectural lower bound in terms of a relative LS-category, using the embedding of \(\mathrm{Sp}(k)\) into the Stiefel manifold \(X_{n,k}\).

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