Biequivariant maps on spheres and topological complexity of lens spaces

DOI10.1142/S0219199712500514MaRDI QIDQ2853985zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jesús González, Maurilio Velasco, W. Stephen Wilson

Publication date 17 October 2013

Published in Communications in Contemporary Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1111.4669

zbMATH Keywords

topological complexityconnective complex \(K\)-theory\(\mathbb{Z}_{2^e}\)-biequivariant maps

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Artificial intelligence for robotics (68T40) Bordism and cobordism theories and formal group laws in algebraic topology (55N22) Lyusternik-Shnirel'man category of a space, topological complexity à la Farber, topological robotics (topological aspects) (55M30) Topological (K)-theory (55N15)

Abstract: Weighted cup-length calculations in singular cohomology led Farber and Grant in 2008 to general lower bounds for the topological complexity of lens spaces. We replace singular cohomology by K-theory, and weighted cup-length arguments by considerations with biequivariant maps on spheres to improve on Farber-Grant's bounds by arbitrarily large amounts. Our calculations are based on the identification of key elements conjectured to generate the annihilator ideal of the toral bottom class in the ku-homology of the classifying space of a rank-2 abelian 2-group.

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