Stable systolic category of manifolds and the cup-length

DOI10.1007/S11784-009-0118-5MaRDI QIDQ2431377zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Alexander Dranishnikov, Yuli Rudyak

Publication date 13 April 2011

Published in Journal of Fixed Point Theory and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0812.4637

zbMATH Keywords

Cup-lengthLusternik-Schnirelmann categorysystolessystolic category

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global geometric and topological methods (à la Gromov); differential geometric analysis on metric spaces (53C23) Lyusternik-Shnirel'man category of a space, topological complexity à la Farber, topological robotics (topological aspects) (55M30) Algebraic topology of manifolds (57N65)

Abstract: It follows from a theorem of Gromov that the stable systolic category of a closed manifold is bounded from below by the rational cup-length of the manifold. In the paper we study the inequality in the opposite direction. In particular, combining our results with Gromov's theorem, we prove the equality of stable systolic category and rational cup-length for simply connected manifolds of dimension less than 8.

Review text

Due to a theorem of Gromov it is known that \(\text{cup-length}_{\mathbb Q}\,M\), the rational cup length of a closed manifold \(M\), is less than or equal to \(\text{cat}_{\text{stsys}}M\), the stable systolic category of \(M\). In this paper, although the authors assert their belief by which, in general, this inequality can be strict, they prove that equality holds for simply connected manifolds of dimension less than or equal to \(7\). In the non simply connected case they also show that, for \(\dim M\leq 5\), \(\text{cat}_{\text{stsys}}M\leq \widetilde{\text{cup-length}}\, M\) (here, \(\widetilde{\text{cup-length}}\, M\) denotes the twisted cup length of \(M\)). Thus, in this case, the conjecture of Katz by which the systolic category of a manifold is bounded above by the classical Lusternik-Schnirelmann category of \(M\) is satisfied. Interesting general results on homotopy theory of closed manifolds are needed, and proven, to achieve the results above.

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