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The cohomology algebras of orientable Seifert manifolds and applications to Lusternik-Schnirelmann category

J. Bryden, P. Zvengrowski (1998)

Banach Center Publications

This note gives a complete description of the cohomology algebra of any orientable Seifert manifold with ℤ/p coefficients, for an arbitrary prime p. As an application, the existence of a degree one map from an orientable Seifert manifold onto a lens space is completely determined. A second application shows that the Lusternik-Schnirelmann category for a large class of Seifert manifolds is equal to 3, which in turn is used to verify the Ganea conjecture for these Seifert manifolds.

Topological bar-codes of fractals: a new characterization of symmetric binary fractal trees

Tara D. Taylor (2009)

Banach Center Publications

The goal of this paper is to provide foundations for a new way to classify and characterize fractals using methods of computational topology. The fractal dimension is a main characteristic of fractal-like objects, and has proved to be a very useful tool for applications. However, it does not fully characterize a fractal. We can obtain fractals with the same dimension that are quite different topologically. Motivated by techniques from shape theory and computational topology, we consider fractals...

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