LS category on laminations with transverse invariant measure

arXiv1112.5009MaRDI QIDQ6229841FDOQ6229841

Publication date: 21 December 2011

Abstract: A version of the tangential LS category is introduced for topological laminations with a transverse invariant measure. Here, we use the transverse measure of the contraction of a tangential categorical open set instead of counting this set. This new measured category is invariant by leafwise homotopy equivalences preserving the transverse measures, and the condition of being zero or positive is a transverse invariant. The usual tangential LS category is also bounded by the number of certain critical sets. It is also proved that the measured category is semicontinuous when the foliated structure and the transverse invariant measure varies on a fixed manifold, which is a version of a result of W. Singhof and E. Vogt for the tangential category. Hopefully, this relation between LS category and critical sets will be useful to deal with foliated versions of variational problems, like the existence of closed leafwise geodesics, and even to simplify the proofs of classical results on manifolds.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamical aspects of measure-preserving transformations (37A05) Foliations (differential geometric aspects) (53C12) Existence theories in calculus of variations and optimal control (49J99) Measures and integrals in product spaces (28A35) Inner product spaces and their generalizations, Hilbert spaces (46C99)

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