Topological complexity of subgroups of Artin's braid groups

DOI10.1090/CONM/702/14105zbMATH Open1392.55009arXiv1607.04830OpenAlexW2484088687MaRDI QIDQ4608469FDOQ4608469

Authors: Mark Grant, David Recio-Mitter 

Publication date: 16 March 2018

Published in: Topological Complexity and Related Topics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We consider the topological complexity of subgroups of Artin's braid group consisting of braids whose associated permutations lie in some specified subgroup of the symmetric group. We give upper and lower bounds for the topological complexity of such mixed braid groups. In particular we show that the topological complexity of any subgroup of the n-strand braid group which fixes any two strands is 2n-3, extending a result of Farber and Yuzvinsky in the pure braid case. In addition, we generalise our results to the setting of higher topological complexity.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1607.04830

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zbMATH Keywords

cohomological dimensionbraid groupstopological complexityLusternik-Schnirelmann categorytopological roboticsaspherical spaces

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Artificial intelligence for robotics (68T40) Cohomology of groups (20J06) Eilenberg-Mac Lane spaces (55P20) Lyusternik-Shnirel'man category of a space, topological complexity à la Farber, topological robotics (topological aspects) (55M30) Classical topics in algebraic topology (55M99)

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