Lusternik-Schnirelmann category and systolic category of low-dimensional manifolds

Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics

Volumn 59, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1433-1456

  Katz, Mikhail G ^a   Rudyak, Yuli B ^b  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

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EID: 33748334358     PISSN: 00103640     EISSN: 00103640     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cpa.20146     Document Type: Article

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