Timeline for Least number of charts to describe a given manifold
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| Jul 29, 2010 at 13:38 | comment | added | Jeff Strom | The L-S category gives a lower bound on the number of critical points of a functional on your manifold. That's the big abstract theorem that Lusternik and Schnirelmann proved. | |
| Oct 26, 2009 at 17:31 | comment | added | j.c. | For the L-S category, having an upper bound on the category can bound the complexity of your manifold (e.g. in terms of cohomology) from above | |
| Oct 26, 2009 at 16:15 | comment | added | Sonia Balagopalan | Is this appropriate as an answer? I would have commented on the question if I had the rep. | |
| Oct 26, 2009 at 16:05 | history | answered | Sonia Balagopalan | CC BY-SA 2.5 |