Equivariant category and Topological complexity of wedges
Abstract
We prove the formula \begin{equation*} \text{cat}_G(X\vee Y)=\max\{\text{cat}_G(X),\text{cat}_G(Y)\} \end{equation*} for the equivariant category of the wedge . As a direct application, we have that the wedge is -contractible if and only if each is -contractible, for each . One further application is to compute the equivariant category of the quotient , for a -space and an invariant subset such that the inclusion is -homotopic to a constant map , for some . Additionally, we discuss the equivariant and invariant topological complexities for wedges. For instance, as applications of our results, we obtain the following equalities: \begin{align*} \text{TC}_G(X\vee Y)&=\max\{\text{TC}_G(X),\text{TC}_G(Y),\text{cat}_G(X\times Y)\}, \text{TC}^G(X\vee Y)&=\max\{\text{TC}^G(X),\text{TC}^G(Y),_{X\vee Y}\text{cat}_{G\times G}(X\times Y)\}, \end{align*} for -connected -CW-complexes and under certain conditions. Keywords: (Equivariant) Lusternik-Schnirelmann category, equivariant and invariant topological complexities, -spaces, wedge product, smash product
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@article{arxiv.1809.08956,
title = {Equivariant category and Topological complexity of wedges},
author = {Cesar A Ipanaque Zapata and Denise de Mattos},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1809.08956},
year = {2026}
}
Comments
26 pages. We added a section in which we also discuss the equivariant and invariant topological complexities. Minor changes. New title. Final version. Comments are welcome