Niech V będzie ortogonalną reprezentacją zwartej grupy Liego Gi niech S(V),D(V) oznaczają sferę jednostkową i kulę jednostkową V.Jeżeli F jest G-niezmienniczą funkcją rzeczywistą klasy C^1 na Vto mówimy, że grad F (gradient F) jest dopuszczalny, jeżeli(grad F)(x) jest różny od zera dla x należących do S(V). Pracapoświęcona jest homotopijnej klasyfikacji dopuszczalnychG-niezmienniczych odwzorowań gradientowych.

We construct a degree-type otopy invariant for equivariant gradient local maps in the case of a real finite-dimensional orthogonal representation of a compact Lie group. We prove that the invariant establishes a bijection between the set of equivariant gradient otopy classes and the direct sum of countably many copies of Z.

Consider the Euclidean space Rn with the orthogonal action of a compact Lie group G. We prove that a locally Lipschitz G-invariant mapping f from Rn to R can be uniformly approximated by G-invariant smooth mappings g in such a way that the gradient of g is a graph approximation of Clarke’s generalized gradient of f . This result enables a proper development of equivariant gradient degree theory for a class of set-valued gradient...

We investigate relations between stable equivariant homotopy groups of spheres in classical and gradient categories. To this end, the auxiliary category of orthogonal equivariant maps, a natural enlargement of the category of gradient maps, is used. Our result allows for describing stable equivariant homotopy groups of spheres in the category of orthogonal maps in terms of classical stable equivariant groups of spheres with shifted...

We present a version of the equivariant gradient degree defined for equivariant gradient perturbations of an equivariant unbounded self-adjoint operator with purely discrete spectrum in Hilbert space. Two possible applications are discussed.