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Cohomological Dimension, Connectivity, and Lusternik--Schnirelmann category

Algebraic Topology 2017-03-13 v1

Abstract

Dranishnikov~\cite{D2} proved that catXcd(π1(X))+hd(X)12.{\rm cat} X\leq {\rm cd}(\pi_1(X))+\Bigl\lceil\frac{{\rm hd} (X)-1}{2}\Bigr\rceil. where cd(π){\rm cd}(\pi) denotes the cohomological dimension of a group π\pi and hd(X){\rm hd}(X) denotes the homotopy dimension of XX. Furthermore, there is a well-known inequality of Grossman,~\cite{G}: catXhd(X)k+1 if πi(X)=0 for ik. {\rm cat} X\leq \Bigl\lceil\frac{{\rm hd} (X)}{k+1}\Bigr\rceil \text{ if } \pi_i(X)=0 \text{ for } i\leq k. We make a synthesis and generalization of both of these results, by demonstrating the main result: catcd(π1(X))+hd(X)1k+1 if πi(X)=0 for i=2,,k. {\rm cat}\leq {\rm cd}(\pi_1(X))+\Bigl\lceil\frac{{\rm hd} (X)-1}{k+1}\Bigr\rceil \text { if }\pi_i(X)=0 \text{ for } i=2, \ldots, k. The proof of the main theorem uses the Oprea--Strom inequality catXhd(Bπ1(X))+cat1X{\rm cat} X\leq {\rm hd} (B\pi_1(X))+{\rm cat}^1X, \cite{OS} where cat1{\rm cat}^1 is the Clapp-Puppe catA{\rm cat} \mathcal{A} with A\mathcal{A} the class of 1-dimensional CW complexes. The inequality clarified the Dranishnikov inequality.

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@article{arxiv.1703.03788,
  title  = {Cohomological Dimension, Connectivity, and Lusternik--Schnirelmann category},
  author = {Yuli Rudyak},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1703.03788},
  year   = {2017}
}

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