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On the Lusternik-Schnirelmann Category of Maps
Canadian journal of mathematics, Tome 54 (2002) no. 3, pp. 608-633

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We give conditions which determine if cat of a map go up when extending over a cofibre. We apply this to reprove a result of Roitberg giving an example of a $\text{CW}$ complex $Z$ such that $\text{cat}(Z)\,=\,2$ but every skeleton of $Z$ is of category 1. We also find conditions when $\text{cat}(f\,\times \,g)\,<\,\text{cat}(f)\,+\,\text{cat}(g)$ . We apply our result to show that under suitable conditions for rational maps $f,\,\text{mcat}(f)\,<\,\text{cat}(f)$ is equivalent to $\text{cat(}f)\,=\,\text{cat(}f\,\times \,\text{i}{{\text{d}}_{{{S}^{n}}}})$ . Many examples with $\text{mcat}(f)\,<\,\text{cat}(f)$ satisfying our conditions are constructed. We also answer a question of Iwase by constructing $p$ -local spaces $X$ such that $\text{cat(}X\ \times \,{{S}^{1}}\text{)}\,\text{=}\,\text{cat(}X\text{)}\,\text{=2}$ . In fact for our spaces and every $Y\,\not{\simeq }\,*,\,\text{cat}(X\,\times \,Y)\,\le \,\text{cat}(Y)\,+\,1\,\text{cat}(Y)\,+\,\text{cat}(X)$ . We show that this same $X$ has the property $\text{cat}(X)=\,\text{cat}(X\,\times \,X)\,=\,\text{cl}(X\,\times \,X)\,=\,2$ .
DOI : 10.4153/CJM-2002-022-6
Mots-clés : 55M30, 55P62 
Stanley, Donald. On the Lusternik-Schnirelmann Category of Maps. Canadian journal of mathematics, Tome 54 (2002) no. 3, pp. 608-633. doi: 10.4153/CJM-2002-022-6
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