Borsuk-Ulam property and sectional category

DOI10.1007/S41980-023-00787-3arXiv2210.00205OpenAlexW4379879869MaRDI QIDQ6074844FDOQ6074844

Authors: Cesar A. Ipanaque Zapata, Daciberg Lima Gonçalves 

Publication date: 20 September 2023

Published in: Bulletin of the Iranian Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: For a Hausdorff space $X$, a free involution $au:XoX$ and a Hausdorff space $Y$, we discover a connection between the sectional category of the double covers $q:XoX/au$ and $q^Y:F(Y,2)oD(Y,2)$ from the ordered configuration space $F(Y,2)$ to its unordered quotient $D(Y,2)=F(Y,2)/Sigm{a}_2$, and the Borsuk-Ulam property (BUP) for the triple $left((X,au);Yight)$. Explicitly, we demonstrate that the triple $left((X,au);Yight)$ satisfies the BUP if the sectional category of $q$ is bigger than the sectional category of $q^Y$. This property connects a standard problem in Borsuk-Ulam theory to current research trends in sectional category. As an application of our results, we present a new lower bound for the index in terms of sectional category. We present several examples for whom the lower bound coincides with sectional category minus 1. We conjecture that the index of $(M,au)$ coincides with the sectional category of the quotient map $q:MoM/au$ minus 1 for any CW complex $M$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.00205

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zbMATH Keywords

configuration spacesBorsuk-Ulam theoremL-S categorysectional categoryclassifying maps

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Classifying spaces of groups and (H)-spaces in algebraic topology (55R35) Fixed points and coincidences in algebraic topology (55M20) Discriminantal varieties and configuration spaces in algebraic topology (55R80) Covering spaces and low-dimensional topology (57M10) Lyusternik-Shnirel'man category of a space, topological complexity à la Farber, topological robotics (topological aspects) (55M30)

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