The LS category of the product of Lens spaces

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Abstract: We reduced Rudyak's conjecture that a degree one map between closed manifolds cannot raise the Lusternik-Schnirelmann category to the computation of the category of the product of two lens spaces LpnimesLqn with relatively prime p and q. We have computed cat(LpnimesLqn) for values of p,q>n/2. It turns out that our computation supports the conjecture. For spin manifolds M we establish a criterion for the equality catM=dimM1 which is a K-theoretic refinement of the Katz-Rudyak criterion for catM=dimM. We apply it to obtain the inequality cat(LpnimesLqn)le2n2 for all n and odd relatively prime p and q.









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