Topological complexity of some planar polygon spaces

DOI10.1007/S40590-016-0093-YzbMATH Open1376.55003arXiv1504.00848OpenAlexW1893785269MaRDI QIDQ2398326FDOQ2398326

Authors: Donald M. Davis 

Publication date: 15 August 2017

Published in: Boletín de la Sociedad Matemática Mexicana. Third Series (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Using known results about their mod-2 cohomology ring, we prove that the topological complexity of the space of isometry classes of n-gons in the plane with one side of length r and all others of length 1 equals either 2n-5 or 2n-6, provided that n-r is not an odd integer.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1504.00848

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zbMATH Keywords

planar polygon spacestopological complexitycup lengthmod 2 cohomology ring

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Moduli problems for topological structures (58D29) Discriminantal varieties and configuration spaces in algebraic topology (55R80) Geometric methods (93B27) Lyusternik-Shnirel'man category of a space, topological complexity à la Farber, topological robotics (topological aspects) (55M30)

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