Trace map, Cayley transform and LS category of Lie groups

DOI10.1007/S10455-010-9239-8MaRDI QIDQ629930zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Antonio Gómez-Tato, Enrique Macias-Virgós, M. J. Pereira-Sáez

Publication date 10 March 2011

Published in Annals of Global Analysis and Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0907.0751

zbMATH Keywords

Cayley transformLS categoryBott-Morse function, Left eigenvaluesUnitary and symplectic groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General properties and structure of real Lie groups (22E15) Lyusternik-Shnirel'man category of a space, topological complexity à la Farber, topological robotics (topological aspects) (55M30)

Abstract: The aim of this paper is to use the so-called Cayley transform to compute the LS category of Lie groups and homogeneous spaces by giving explicit categorical open coverings. When applied to U(n), $U(2n)/Sp(n)$ and $U(n)/O(n)$ this method is simpler than those formerly known. We also show that the Cayley transform is related to height functions in Lie groups, allowing to give a local linear model of the set of critical points. As an application we give an explicit covering of $Sp(2)$ by categorical open sets. The obstacles to generalize these results to $Sp(n)$ are discussed.

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