Homological category weights and estimates for cat^1(X,)

DOI10.4171/JEMS/110MaRDI QIDQ2478613zbMATH OpenFDO

Publication date 28 March 2008

Published in Journal of the European Mathematical Society (JEMS) (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0609141

category weight Lusternik-Schnirelmann category topology of closed 1-forms

Lyusternik-Shnirel'man category of a space, topological complexity à la Farber, topological robotics (topological aspects) (55M30) Homology with local coefficients, equivariant cohomology (55N25)

Abstract: In this paper we study a new notion of category weight of homology classes developing further the ideas of E. Fadell and S. Husseini. In the case of closed smooth manifolds the homological category weight is equivalent to the cohomological category weight of E. Fadell and S. Husseini but these two notions are distinct already for Poincar'e complexes. An important advantage of the homological category weight is its homotopy invariance. We use the notion of homological category weight to study various generalizations of the Lusternik - Schnirelmann category which appeared in the theory of closed one-forms and have applications in dynamics. Our primary goal is to compare two such invariants

c a t (X, x i)

and

c a t^{1} (X, x i)

which are defined similarly with reversion of the order of quantifiers. We compute these invariants explicitly for products of surfaces and show that they may differ by an arbitrarily large quantity. The proof of one of our main results, Theorem ef{main2}, uses an algebraic characterization of homology classes

(where

i l d e X o X

is a free abelian covering) which are movable to infinity of

i l d e X

with respect to a prescribed cohomology class

x i i n H^{1} (X; R)

. This result is established in Part II which can be read independently of the rest of the paper.

Review text

The authors introduce a new notion of category weight for homology classes in a quite similar way as E. Fadell and S. Husseini did for the cohomological category weight. Let \(x\in H_q(X;R)\) be a singular homology class with respect to a local system \(R\) and \(k\geq 0\). The homological weight of \(x\), \(cwgt(x)\), is \(\geq k\) if for some closed subset \(A\subset X\) with cat\(_XA\leq k\) there is a singular cycle \(c\) in \(X-A\) representing \(x\). An important property of the homological weight is its invariance along homotopy equivalences. The authors use this notion to study various nice generalizations of the Lusternik-Schnirelmann category which have applications in dynamics (see for instance the first author's book [Topology of closed one-forms. Mathematical Surveys and Monographs 108. (Providence), RI: American Mathematical Society (AMS). (2004; Zbl 1052.58016)]). Their primary goal is to compare two invariants cat\((X,\xi)\) and cat\(^1(X,\xi)\) associated to a 1-form \(\xi\).

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