Distributional category of manifolds
Ekansh Jauhari

TL;DR
This paper explores the distributional LS-category, a new homotopy invariant, providing conditions for it to match the classical LS-category in manifolds, and computes it for various classes of manifolds and spaces.
Contribution
It establishes sufficient conditions for the distributional LS-category to equal the classical LS-category and computes this invariant for specific manifolds and Alexandrov spaces.
Findings
dcat equals cat for certain manifolds
Computed dcat for closed 3-manifolds with torsion-free fundamental groups
Extended results to Alexandrov spaces with curvature bounds
Abstract
Recently, a new homotopy invariant of metric spaces, called the distributional LS-category, was defined, which provides a lower bound to the classical LS-category. In this paper, we obtain several sufficient conditions for the distributional LS-category (dcat) of a closed manifold to be maximum, i.e., equal to its classical LS-category (cat). These give us many new computations of dcat, especially for some essential manifolds and (generalized) connected sums. In the process, we also determine the cat of closed 3-manifolds having torsion-free fundamental groups and some closed geometrically decomposable 4-manifolds. Finally, we extend some of our results to closed Alexandrov spaces with curvature bounded below and discuss their cat and dcat in dimension 3.
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Taxonomy
TopicsAdvanced Topics in Algebra · Homotopy and Cohomology in Algebraic Topology · Advanced Operator Algebra Research
