Small values of Lusternik-Schnirelmann and systolic categories for manifolds

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Authors: Alexander Dranishnikov, Mikhail G. Katz, Yuli Rudyak Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 12 June 2007

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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