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Lusternik–Schnirelmann category of a manifold gives a lower bound of the number of critical points of a differentiable map on it. The purpose of this paper is to show how to construct cone-decompositions of manifolds by using functions of class C 1 and their gradient flows, where cone-decompositions are used to give an upper bound for the Lusternik–Schnirelmann category which is a homotopy invariant of a topological space. In particular, the Morse–Bott functions on the Stiefel manifolds considered by Frankel (1965) are effectively used to construct the conedecompositions of Stiefel manifolds and symmetric Riemannian spaces to determine their Lusternik–Schnirelmann categories.
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Kadzisa, H., Mimura, M. Morse–Bott functions and the Lusternik–Schnirelmann category. J. Fixed Point Theory Appl. 10, 63–85 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11784-010-0041-9
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