The sectional category of a map

DOI10.1017/S0308210500003395MaRDI QIDQ4820452zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Martin Arkowitz, Jeffrey Strom

Publication date 15 October 2004

Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Section A Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0403387

zbMATH Keywords

Lusternik-Schnirelmann categorysectional category

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Lyusternik-Shnirel'man category of a space, topological complexity à la Farber, topological robotics (topological aspects) (55M30)

Abstract: We study a generalization of the Svarc genus of a fiber map. For an arbitrary collection E of spaces and a map f:X-->Y, we define a numerical invariant, the E-sectional category of f, in terms of open covers of Y. We obtain several basic features of E-sectional category, including those dealing with homotopy domination and homotopy pushouts. We then give three simple properties which characterize the E-sectional category. In the final section we obtain inequalities for the E-sectional category of a composition and inequalities relating the E-sectional category to the Fadell-Husseini category of a map and the Clapp-Puppe category of a map.

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