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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 November 2018
It is easy to see that a localization (in the sense of [9]) of a simply connected co H-space (equivalently a simply connected space of Liusternik-Schnirelman category one) is again a co H-space. (All spaces in this paper will be pointed and have the based homotopy type of a connected CW complex; and all maps will preserve base-points.) We show that the category of a simply connected space does not increase on localizing. We give an example to show that the hypothesis simple-connectivity is crucial. In strong contrast, the dual result only requires connectivity.