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In this paper we study a new notion of category weight of homology classes developing further the ideas of E. Fadell and S. Husseini. In the case of closed smooth manifolds the homological category weight is equivalent to the cohomological…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2016-09-07 Michael Farber , Dirk Schuetz

We study notions of homotopy in the Newtonian space $N^{1,p}(X;Y)$ of Sobolev type maps between metric spaces. After studying the properties and relations of two different notions we prove a compactness result for sequences in homotopy…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2016-03-08 Elefterios Soultanis

We show that the notions of homotopy epimorphism and homological epimorphism in the category of differential graded algebras are equivalent. As an application we obtain a characterization of acyclic maps of topological spaces in terms of…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2021-06-15 Joe Chuang , Andrey Lazarev

In this paper, Lusternik-Schinrelmann and geometric category of finite spaces are considered. We define new numerical invariants of these spaces derived from the geometric category and present an algorithmic approach for its effective…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2022-09-30 Manuel Cárdenas , Ramón Flores , Antonio Quintero , Maria Trinidad Villar-Liñán

We prove various inequalities measuring how far from an isometry a local map from a manifold of high curvature to a manifold of low curvature must be. We consider the cases of volume-preserving, conformal and quasi-conformal maps. The…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-03-18 Benoît Kloeckner

Many of the properties of sectional category, topological complexity and homotopic distance are in fact derived from a small number of basic properties, which, once established, lead to all the others without further recourse to topology.…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-08-26 Jean-Paul Doeraene , Mohammed El Haouari

In this paper, we introduce the higher analogues of contiguity distance and its relations with simplicial Lusternik-Schnirelmann category and discrete topological complexity. Also we study the effects of geometric realisation and…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2024-03-26 Nilay Ekiz Yazici , Ayse Borat

In this article we study a homotopy invariant cat(X,B,\xi) on a pair of finite CW complexes with respect to a continuous closed 1-form. This is a generalisation of a Lusternik-Schnirelmann category developed by Farber, studying the topology…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2009-11-20 Tieqiang Li , Dirk Schuetz

For a given pair of maps f,g:X->M from an arbitrary topological space to an n-manifold, the Lefschetz homomorphism is a certain graded homomorphism L:H(X)->H(M) of degree (-n). We prove a Lefschetz-type coincidence theorem: if the Lefschetz…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Peter Saveliev

In this paper, we consider some generalized holomorphic maps between pseudo-Hermitian manifolds and Hermitian manifolds. By Bochner formulas and comparison theorems, we establish related Schwarz type results. As corollaries, Liouville…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-07-29 Tian Chong , Yuxin Dong , Yibin Ren , Weike Yu

Using the idea of the degree of a smooth mapping between two manifolds of the same dimension we present here the topological (homotopical) classification of the mappings between spheres of the same dimension, vector fields, monopole and…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-04-28 Jerzy Szczesny , Marek Biesiada , Marek Szydlowski

We give an alternative to Postnikov's homotopy classification of maps from 3-dimensional CW-complexes to homogeneous spaces G/H of Lie groups. It describes homotopy classes in terms of lifts to the group G and is suitable for extending the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2012-11-26 Sergiy Koshkin

We introduce the persistent homotopy type distance dHT to compare real valued functions defined on possibly different homotopy equivalent topological spaces. The underlying idea in the definition of dHT is to measure the minimal shift that…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-03-06 Patrizio Frosini , Claudia Landi , Facundo Memoli

Harmonicity of holomorphic maps between various subclasses of almost contact metric manifolds is discussed. Consequently, some new results are obtained. Also some known results are recovered, some of them are generalized and some of them…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-02-27 Sadettin Erdem

We study probabilistic variants of the Lusternik--Schnirelmann category and topological complexity, which bound the classical invariants from below. We present a number of computations illustrating both wide agreement and wide disagreement…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2024-05-22 Ben Knudsen , Shmuel Weinberger

In this paper, we introduce the n-th discrete topological complexity and study its properties such as its relation with simplicial Lusternik-Schnirelmann category and how the higher dimensions of discrete topological complexity relate with…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2024-04-17 Hilal Alabay , Ayse Borat , Esra Cihangirli , Esma Dirican Erdal

In physics, two systems that radically differ at short scales can exhibit strikingly similar macroscopic behaviour: they are part of the same long-distance universality class. Here we apply this viewpoint to geometry and initiate a program…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-11-22 Adam R. Brown , Michael H. Freedman , Henry W. Lin , Leonard Susskind

Topological complexity is a homotopy invariant that measures the minimal number of continuous rules required for motion planning in a space. In this work, we introduce persistent analogs of topological complexity and its cohomological lower…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-08-19 Facundo Mémoli , Ling Zhou

In this text we expose basic cases of some fundamental ideas and methods of topology. Namely, of homotopy, degree, fundamental group, covering, Whitehead invariant, etc. This is done by considering the elementary example: closed polygonal…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2026-05-07 E. Alkin , O. Nikitenko , A. Skopenkov

There is a well-known correspondence between infinite trees and ultrametric spaces which can be interpreted as an equivalence of categories and comes from considering the end space of the tree. In this equivalence, uniformly continuous maps…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Álvaro Martínez Pérez , M. A. Morón