Topological complexity of some planar polygon spaces

DOI10.1007/S40590-016-0093-YMaRDI QIDQ2398326zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Donald M. Davis

Publication date 15 August 2017

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

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

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)

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.

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