Small values of Lusternik-Schnirelmann and systolic categories for manifolds

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Authors Alexander Dranishnikov, Mikhail G. Katz, Yuli Rudyak

Publication date 12 June 2007

Global geometric and topological methods (à la Gromov); differential geometric analysis on metric spaces (53C23) Lyusternik-Shnirel'man category of a space, topological complexity à la Farber, topological robotics (topological aspects) (55M30) Algebraic topology of manifolds (57N65)

Abstract: We prove that manifolds of Lusternik-Schnirelmann category 2 necessarily have free fundamental group. We thus settle a 1992 conjecture of Gomez-Larranaga and Gonzalez-Acuna, by generalizing their result in dimension 3, to all higher dimensions. We examine its ramifications in systolic topology, and provide a sufficient condition for ensuring a lower bound of 3 for systolic category.

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