The Lusternik-Schnirelmann category of 𝑆𝑝(3)

Fernández-Suárez, Lucía; Gómez-Tato, Antonio; Strom, Jeffrey; Tanré, Daniel

doi:10.1090/S0002-9939-03-07019-9

The Lusternik-Schnirelmann category of $\operatorname {Sp}(3)$
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by Lucía Fernández-Suárez, Antonio Gómez-Tato, Jeffrey Strom and Daniel Tanré

Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 132 (2004), 587-595

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-03-07019-9

Published electronically: June 12, 2003

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Abstract:

We show that the Lusternik-Schnirelmann category of the symplectic group $\operatorname {Sp}(3)$ is $5$. This L-S category coincides with the cone length and the stable weak category.

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