Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society

Author(s): Lucía Fernández-Suárez; Antonio Gómez-Tato; Jeffrey Strom; Daniel Tanré
Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 132 (2004), 587-595.
MSC (2000): Primary 55M30; Secondary 22E20
Posted: June 12, 2003
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Abstract: We show that the Lusternik-Schnirelmann category of the symplectic group $\operatorname{Sp}(3)$ is

. This L-S category coincides with the cone length and the stable weak category.

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Lucía Fernández-Suárez
Affiliation: Centro de Matemática (CMAT), Universidade do Minho (Gualtar), 4710 Braga, Portugal
Email: lfernandez@math.uminho.pt

Antonio Gómez-Tato
Affiliation: Departamento de Xeometría e Topoloxía, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, 15706 Santiago de Compostela, España
Email: agtato@usc.es

Jeffrey Strom
Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, Western Michigan University, 1903 W. Michigan Ave., Kalamazoo, Michigan 49008
Email: jeffrey.strom@wmich.edu

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