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The genus and the category of configuration spaces

Algebraic Topology 2011-07-06 v3

Abstract

In this paper configuration spaces of smooth manifolds are considered. The accent is made on actions of certain groups (mostly pp-tori) on this spaces by permuting their points. For such spaces the cohomological index, the genus in the sense of Krasnosel'skii-Schwarz, and the equivariant Lyusternik-Schnirelmann category are estimated from below, and some corollaries for functions on configuration spaces are deduced.

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@article{arxiv.0905.0555,
  title  = {The genus and the category of configuration spaces},
  author = {R. N. Karasev},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0905.0555},
  year   = {2011}
}