The cone length and category of maps: pushouts, products and fibrations

zbMATH Open1078.55006arXivmath/0406037MaRDI QIDQ558361FDOQ558361

Authors: Martin Arkowitz, Donald Stanley, Jeffrey Strom 

Publication date: 5 July 2005

Published in: Bulletin of the Belgian Mathematical Society - Simon Stevin (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: For any collection of spaces A, we investigate two non-negative integer homotopy invariants of maps: l_A(f), the A-cone length of f, and L_A(f), the A-category of f. When A is the collection of all spaces, these are the cone length and category of f, respectively, both of which have been studied previously. The following results have been obtained: (1) For a map of one homotopy pushout diagram into another, we derive an upper bound for I_A and L_A of the induced map of homotopy pushouts in terms of I_A and L_A of the other maps. This has many applications including an inequality for I_A and L_A of the maps in a mapping of one mapping cone sequence into another. (2) We establish an upper bound for I_A and L_A of the product of two maps in terms of I_A and L_A of the given maps and the A-cone length of their domains. (3) We study our invariants in a pullback square and obtain as a consequence an upper bound for the A-cone length and A-category of the total space of a fibration in terms of the A-cone length and A-category of the base and fiber. We conclude with several remarks, examples and open questions.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0406037

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zbMATH Keywords

fibrationscone lengthhomotopy pushoutskilling lengthkitegoryLusternik-Schnirelmann (Ljusternik-Schnirelman, Lyusternik-Shnirel'man) categoryproduct of maps

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fiber spaces in algebraic topology (55R05) Lyusternik-Shnirel'man category of a space, topological complexity à la Farber, topological robotics (topological aspects) (55M30) Homotopy theory (55P99)

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