The LS category of the product of Lens spaces

DOI10.2140/AGT.2015.15.2985zbMATH Open1346.55004arXiv1409.8316OpenAlexW3104576453MaRDI QIDQ894964FDOQ894964

Authors: Alexander Dranishnikov 

Publication date: 25 November 2015

Published in: Algebraic \& Geometric Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

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 $L_p^{n}imes{L}_q^n$ with relatively prime $p$ and $q$. We have computed $cat(L_p^{n}imes{L}_q^n)$ 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 $catM=dimM-1$ which is a K-theoretic refinement of the Katz-Rudyak criterion for $catM=dimM$. We apply it to obtain the inequality $cat(L_p^{n}imes{L}_q^n)le2n-2$ for all $n$ and odd relatively prime $p$ and $q$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1409.8316

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zbMATH Keywords

lens spacesLusternik-Schnirelmann theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Algebraic topology on manifolds and differential topology (57R19) Lyusternik-Shnirel'man category of a space, topological complexity à la Farber, topological robotics (topological aspects) (55M30) Absolute neighborhood retracts (55M15)

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