L.S.-category in a model category
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
title: L.S.-category in a model category
zbMATH Open document ID: 0777.55007
DOI: 10.1016/0022-4049(93)90001-A
published in: Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra
publication date: 1993-05-16T00:00:00Z
review text: The notion of category was introduced by \textit{L. Lusternik} and \textit{I. Schnirelmann} [Méthodes topologiques dans les problèmes variationnels (1934; Zbl 0011.02803)] to study the stationary points of functions on a manifold. For a path-connected, normal and categorically well based space, \(X\), the LS-category can be defined by two equivalent ways: (1) as the least integer, \(n\), such that there exists a (homotopy) factorization of the diagonal, \(\Delta: X\to X^{n+1}\), through the fat wedge \(T^ n(X)\) of \(X\), [\textit{G. W. Whitehead}, Centre Belge Rech. math., Colloque de Topologie algébrique, Louvain les 11, 12 et 13 juin 1956, 89-95 (1957; Zbl 0079.391)], (2) or as the least integer, \(n\), such that Ganea's fibration, \(G_ n X\to X\), admits a section up to homotopy [\textit{T. Ganea}, Illinois J. Math. 11, 417-427 (1967; Zbl 0149.407)]. Fat wedge and Ganea's fibrations can be realized in Quillen's closed model category but, in general, the previous definitions give two distinct integers as that can be noted for the dual notion of cocategory [Ganea, loc. cit.]. In this paper the author introduced the notion of \(J\)-category, as a closed model category enriched with a cube axiom (which is not autodual!). The author proves that the Whitehead and Ganea definitions coincide in a \(J\)-category, \(C\), and calls \(C\)-cat this common notion. He studies the basic properties of \(C\)-cat, proves an intrinsic version of the mapping theorem of \textit{Y. Félix} and \textit{S. Halperin} [Trans. Am. Math. Soc. 273, 1-37 (1982; Zbl 0508.55004)] and gives examples of \(J\)-categories. Finally, if \(F: C\to D\) is an ``appropriate'' functor between \(J\)-categories, the author shows that \(C\)-\(\text{cat}(X)\), \(X\in C\), can be approximated by \(D\)- \(\text{cat}(F(X))\).
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 55M30
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 55U35
zbMATH DE Number: 166174
zbMATH Keywords: Lusternik-Schnirelmann category
zbMATH Keywords: LS-category
zbMATH Keywords: closed model category
author: Jean-Paul Doeraene
reviewed by: Daniel Tanré
MaRDI profile type: MaRDI publication profile
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