Lusternik-Schnirelmann category and systolic category of low-dimensional manifolds

DOI10.1002/CPA.20146zbMATH Open1112.55005arXivmath/0410456OpenAlexW2100515678MaRDI QIDQ3419682FDOQ3419682

Yuli Rudyak, Mikhail G. Katz

Publication date: 7 February 2007

Published in: Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We show that the geometry of a Riemannian manifold (M,g) is sensitive to the apparently purely homotopy-theoretic invariant of M known as the Lusternik-Schnirelmann category, denoted cat_{LS}(M). Here we introduce a Riemannian analogue of cat_{LS}(M), called the systolic category of M. It is denoted cat_{sys}(M), and defined in terms of the existence of systolic inequalities satisfied by every metric g, as initiated by C. Loewner and later developed by M. Gromov. We compare the two categories. In all our examples, the inequality cat_{sys}(M) le cat_{LS}(M) is satisfied, which typically turns out to be an equality, e.g. in dimension 3. We show that a number of existing systolic inequalities can be reinterpreted as special cases of such equality, and that both categories are sensitive to Massey products. The comparison with the value of cat(M) leads us to prove or conjecture new systolic inequalities on M.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0410456

zbMATH Keywords

Lusternik-Schnirelmann categoryMassey productsystolic category

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Massey products (55S30) Lyusternik-Shnirel'man category of a space, topological complexity à la Farber, topological robotics (topological aspects) (55M30) Homology and homotopy of topological groups and related structures (57T99)

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