Category of loop spaces of open subsets in euclidean space

DOI10.1016/0362-546X(91)90234-RzbMath0756.55008OpenAlexW2006853096MaRDI QIDQ4008892

Publication date: 27 September 1992

Published in: Nonlinear Analysis: Theory, Methods & Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0362-546x(91)90234-r

zbMATH Keywords

singular homology Lusternik-Schnirelmann category cup length absolute neighbourhood retracts

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Lyusternik-Shnirel'man category of a space, topological complexity à la Farber, topological robotics (topological aspects) (55M30)

Related Items

Trajectories for relativistic particles under the action of an electromagnetic field in a stationary space-time ⋮ Stationary Lorentz manifolds and vector fields: existence of periodic trajectories ⋮ On general plane fronted waves. Geodesics ⋮ Convex regions of stationary spacetimes and Randers spaces. Applications to lensing and asymptotic flatness ⋮ Time-like solutions to the Lorentz force equation in time-dependent electromagnetic and gravitational fields ⋮ A non-smooth two points boundary value problem on Riemannian manifolds ⋮ A Fermat principle for stationary space-times and applications to light rays ⋮ On the multiplicity of homoclinic orbits on Riemannian manifolds for a class of second order Hamiltonian systems ⋮ Periodic solutions of Lagrangian systems with Lipschitz obstacle ⋮ Periodic solutions of quadratic lagrangian systems on $p$-convex sets ⋮ Light rays joining two submanifolds in space-times ⋮ Geodesics in stationary spacetimes and classical Lagrangian systems ⋮ On a Fermat principle in general relativity. A Morse theory for light rays ⋮ Orthogonal trajectories on Riemannian manifolds and applications to plane wave type spacetimes ⋮ Some results on lightlike geodesics on stationary lorentzian manifolds ⋮ On the effect of the domain on the number of orthogonal geodesic chords ⋮ Timelike trajectories with fixed energy under a potential in static spacetimes ⋮ Multiple connecting geodesics of a Randers-Kropina metric via homotopy theory for solutions of an affine control system ⋮ A variational setting for an indefinite Lagrangian with an affine Noether charge ⋮ Conditional extremals in complete Riemannian manifolds ⋮ Closed geodesics in Riemannian manifolds with convex boundary ⋮ Convex domains of Finsler and Riemannian manifolds ⋮ A quadratic Bolza-type problem in a Riemannian manifold. ⋮ Global variational methods on smooth nonholonomic constraints ⋮ On the energy functional on Finsler manifolds and applications to stationary spacetimes ⋮ Unnamed Item ⋮ Relative category, products and coproducts ⋮ Lightlike rays in stationary spacetimes with critical growth ⋮ Geodesics with prescribed energy on static Lorentzian manifolds with convex boundary ⋮ On the existence of geodesics on stationary Lorentz manifolds with convex boundary ⋮ Normal Geodesics Connecting two Non-necessarily Spacelike Submanifolds in a Stationary Spacetime ⋮ Lightlike periodic trajectories in space-times ⋮ Critical point theory and global lorentzian geometry ⋮ Periodic trajectories in lorentzian manifolds ⋮ Infinite cup length in free loop spaces with an application to a problem of the N-body type ⋮ Existence of variationally defined curves with higher order elliptic Lagrangians ⋮ Periodic trajectories in Gödel type space-times ⋮ On the existence of closed geodesics on noncompact Riemannian manifolds ⋮ On the number of solutions for the two-point boundary value problem on Riemannian manifolds ⋮ On a class of singular second-order Hamiltonian systems with infinitely many homoclinic solutions ⋮ Existence and multiplicity of normal geodesics in Lorentzian manifolds ⋮ Normal geodesics in static spacetimes with critical asymptotic behavior ⋮ Periodic solutions for dynamical systems on non-complete Riemannian manifolds ⋮ Orbit configuration spaces associated to discrete subgroups of $\mathrm{PSL}(2,\mathbb R)$ ⋮ An existence theory for relativistic brachistochrones in stationary space–times ⋮ A prescribed-energy problem for a conservative singular Hamiltonian system ⋮ CONVEXITY CONDITIONS ON THE BOUNDARY OF A STATIONARY SPACETIME AND APPLICATIONS ⋮ Unnamed Item ⋮ On a Fermat principle in general relativity. A Ljusternik-Schnirelmann theory for light rays ⋮ Trajectories connecting two events of a Lorentzian manifold in the presence of a vector field ⋮ Multiple critical points for indefinite functionals and applications ⋮ On the geodesical connectedness for a class of semi-Riemannian manifolds ⋮ Closed geodesics in stationary manifolds with strictly convex boundary ⋮ Periodic trajectories on Lorentz manifolds under the action of a vector field ⋮ Normal geodesics in stationary Lorentzian manifolds with unbounded coefficients ⋮ The arrival time brachistochrones in general relativity. ⋮ An intrinsic Fermat principle on stationary Lorentzian manifolds and applications.

Cites Work