Biequivariant maps on spheres and topological complexity of lens spaces

DOI10.1142/S0219199712500514zbMATH Open1278.55006arXiv1111.4669OpenAlexW3101109306MaRDI QIDQ2853985FDOQ2853985

Authors: Jesús González, Maurilio Velasco, W. Stephen Wilson 

Publication date: 17 October 2013

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

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.

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

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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)

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