Up-to-one approximations of sectional category and topological complexity

DOI10.1016/J.TOPOL.2013.02.001MaRDI QIDQ1944348zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Yanyan Li

Publication date 5 April 2013

Published in Topology and its Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1106.0412

zbMATH Keywords

Ganea fibrationsectional categorytopological complexity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Lyusternik-Shnirel'man category of a space, topological complexity à la Farber, topological robotics (topological aspects) (55M30)

Abstract: James' sectional category and Farber's topological complexity are studied in a general and unified framework. We introduce `relative' and `strong relative' forms of the category for a map. We show that both can differ from sectional category just by 1. A map has sectional or relative category less than or equal to $n$ if, and only if, it is `dominated' (in some sense) by a map with strong relative category less than or equal to $n$. A homotopy pushout can increase sectional category but neither homotopy pushouts, nor homotopy pullbacks, can increase (strong) relative category. This makes (strong) relative category a convenient tool to study sectional category. We completely determine the sectional and relative categories of the fibres of the Ganea fibrations. As a particular case, the `topological complexity' of a space is the sectional category of the diagonal map. So it can differ from the (strong) relative category of the diagonal just by 1. We call the strong relative category of the diagonal `strong complexity'. We show that the strong complexity of a suspension is at most 2.

Review text

The paper under review places I. M. James' sectional category and M. Farber's topological complexity in a unified framework. In general, all results in this paper hold in a closed model category satisfying a cube axiom. The authors introduce Lusternik-Schnirelmann type invariants such as the strong pushout category and string relative category of a map. There are many results relating these invariants to each other with respect to standard homotopy constructions, as well as their relations to the classical topological invariants \(\mathrm{cat}\), \(\mathrm{Cat}\), and \(\mathrm{sect}\). Applications to topological complexity are given. In particular, the authors show that the so-called string complexity of a suspension is at most \(2\). The paper contains an appendix proving cube and pushout type theorems needed in the paper.

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