Lusternik-schnirelmann Category and Related Topics : 2001 AMS-IMS-SIAM Joint Summer Research Conference on Lusternik-Schnierlmann Category in the New Millennium, July 29-August 2, 2001, Mount Holyoke

ISBN-13: 9780821828007 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 203 str.

Lesley A. DuTemple

Opis

This collection is the proceedings volume for the AMS-IMS-SIAM Joint Summer Research Conference, Lusternik-Schnirelmann Category, held in 2001 at Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts. The conference attracted an international group of 37 participants that included many leading experts. The contributions included here represent some of the field's most able practitioners. With a surge of recent activity, exciting advances have been made in this field, including the resolution of several long-standing conjectures. Lusternik-Schnirelmann category is a numerical homotopy invariant that also provides a lower bound for the number of critical points of a smooth function on a manifold.