Lusternik-Schnirelmann category of 3-manifolds

Foliations and the topology of 3-manifolds

David Gabai · Journal of Differential Geometry · 1983 · 900 citations · Full text

Natural Sciences, Mathematics, Geometry +8

Knots are determined by their complements

C. McA. Gordon, John Luecke · Journal of the American Mathematical Society · 1989 · 519 citations

Natural Sciences, Mathematics, Topology +5

On spaces having the homotopy type of 𝐶𝑊-complex

John Milnor · Transactions of the American Mathematical Society · 1959 · 353 citations · Full text

Natural Sciences, Mathematics, Representation Theory +7

Foliations and the topology of 3-manifolds. III

David Gabai · Journal of Differential Geometry · 1987 · 275 citations

Natural Sciences, Mathematics, Geometry +8

On category, in the sense of Lusternik-Schnirelmann

I. M. James · Topology · 1978 · 261 citations

Natural Sciences, Mathematics, Geometry +3