Lusternik-Schnirelmann category
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Lusternik-Schnirelmann category
（Mathematical surveys and monographs, v. 103）
American Mathematical Society, c2003
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Hokkaido University, Library, Graduate School of Science, Faculty of Science and School of Science図書
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"The American Mathematical Society not only decided to publish this book, but supported and AMS-IMS-SIAM Summer Research Conference on LS-category in 2001 that proved instrumental in spurring us to finish the book. The proceedings volume of the Summer Research Conference has been published as [CLOT02] ..."--Pref., p. xvii
Includes bibliographical references (p. 311-324) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
'Lusternik-Schnirelmann category is like a Picasso painting. Looking at category from different perspectives produces completely different impressions of category's beauty and applicability' - from the Introduction. Lusternik-Schnirelmann category is a subject with ties to both algebraic topology and dynamical systems. The authors take LS-category as the central theme, and then develop topics in topology and dynamics around it. Included in this book are exercises and many examples. The book presents the material in a rich, expository style.The book provides a unified approach to LS-category, including foundational material on homotopy theoretic aspects, the Lusternik-Schnirelmann theorem on critical points, and more advanced topics such as Hopf invariants, the construction of functions with few critical points, connections with symplectic geometry, the complexity of algorithms, and category of $3$-manifolds. This is the first book to synthesize these topics. It takes readers from the very basics of the subject to the state of the art. Prerequisites of this book are few: two semesters of algebraic topology and, perhaps, differential topology. It is suitable for graduate students and researchers interested in algebraic topology and dynamical systems.
Table of Contents
Introduction to LS-category Lower bounds for LS-category Upper bounds for category Localization and category Rational homotopy and category Hopf invariants Category and critical points Category and symplectic topology Examples, computations and extensions Topology and analysis Basic homotopy Bibliography Index.
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