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On the Lusternik–Schnirelmann category of symmetric spaces of classical type

Mamoru Mimura and Kei Sugata

Geometry & Topology Monographs 13 (2008) 323–334

DOI: 10.2140/gtm.2008.13.323

arXiv: 0904.0930

Abstract

We determine the Lusternik–Schnirelmann category of the irreducible, symmetric Riemann spaces SU(n)/SO(n) and SU(2n)/Sp(n) of type AI and AII respectively.

Keywords

Lusternik-Schnirelmann category, homogeneous space

Mathematical Subject Classification

Primary: 55M30

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Publication

Received: 18 February 2006
Revised: 4 September 2006
Accepted: 11 October 2006
Published: 25 February 2008

Authors
Mamoru Mimura
Department of Mathematics
Faculty of Science
Okayama University
Okayama 700-8530, Japan
Kei Sugata
Department of Mathematics
Faculty of Science
Okayama University
Okayama 700-8530, Japan