Lusternik-Schnirelmann category of simplicial complexes and finite spaces

In this paper we establish a natural definition of Lusternik-Schnirelmann category for simplicial complexes via the well known notion of contiguity. This simplicial category has the property of being invariant under strong equivalences, and it only depends on the simplicial structure rather than its...

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Autores: Fernández Ternero, Desamparados, Macías Virgós, Enrique, Vilches Alarcón, José Antonio
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión enviada para evaluación y publicación
Fecha de publicación:2015
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Sevilla (US)
Repositorio:idUS. Depósito de Investigación de la Universidad de Sevilla
OAI Identifier:oai:idus.us.es:11441/49120
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/11441/49120
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.topol.2015.08.001
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Simplicial complex
Contiguity class
Strong collapse
Lusternik-Schnirelmann category
Finite topological space
Poset
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Sumario:In this paper we establish a natural definition of Lusternik-Schnirelmann category for simplicial complexes via the well known notion of contiguity. This simplicial category has the property of being invariant under strong equivalences, and it only depends on the simplicial structure rather than its geometric realization. In a similar way to the classical case, we also develop a notion of simplicial geometric category. We prove that the maximum value over the simplicial homotopy class of a given complex is attained in the core of the complex. Finally, by means of well known relations between simplicial complexes and posets, specific new results for the topological notion of LS-category are obtained in the setting of finite topological spaces.