Spaces with high topological complexity

DOI10.1017/S030821051200087XzbMATH Open1300.55005arXiv1204.5152MaRDI QIDQ2877948FDOQ2877948

Authors: Aleksandra Franc, Peter Pavešić 

Publication date: 28 August 2014

Published in: Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Section A. Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: By a formula of Farber the topological complexity TC(X) of a (p-1)-connected, m-dimensional CW-complex X is bounded above by (2m+1)/p+1. There are also various lower estimates for TC(X) such as the nilpotency of the ring $H^{\ast }(XimesX,Delta(X))$, and the weak and stable topological compexity wTC(X) and $sigmaTC(X)$. In general the difference between these upper and lower bounds can be arbitrarily large. In this paper we investigate spaces whose topological complexity is close to the maximal value given by Farber's formula and show that in these cases the gap between the lower and upper bounds is narrow and that TC(X) often coincides with the lower bounds.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1204.5152

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zbMATH Keywords

monoidal topological complexitystable topological complexityweak topological complexity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Lyusternik-Shnirel'man category of a space, topological complexity à la Farber, topological robotics (topological aspects) (55M30) Hopf invariants (55Q25)

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