Topological complexity of spatial polygon spaces

DOI10.1090/PROC/12998MaRDI QIDQ2809220zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Donald M. Davis

Publication date 27 May 2016

Published in Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1507.01519

zbMATH Keywords

topological complexityspatial polygon spaces

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

Abstract: Using known results about their integral cohomology ring, we prove that the topological complexity of the space of n-gons in R^3 with prescribed side lengths equals 2n-5, assuming that the space is nonempty and does not contain any straight-line polygons.

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