A Refinement in \v{C}ech Cohomology of Coron's Necessary Condition
Optimization and Control
2026-02-23 v1
Abstract
Coron established a homological obstruction to continuous feedback stabilization of nonlinear control systems with and , showing that local asymptotic stabilizability implies the induced homomorphism satisfies , where . In this paper, we refine Coron's necessary condition using \v{C}ech cohomology and the Vietoris-Begle mapping theorem. Specifically, we prove that the closed version of must be a \v{C}ech cohomology -sphere and that the restriction of to this subset induces an isomorphism on its \v{C}ech cohomology groups in all degrees. This strengthens Coron's condition from a constraint on the top class to a full cohomological rigidity statement.
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@article{arxiv.2602.17845,
title = {A Refinement in \v{C}ech Cohomology of Coron's Necessary Condition},
author = {Bryce Christopherson and Farhad Jafari},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.17845},
year = {2026}
}
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12 pages