The isomorphism problem for planar polygon spaces

DOI10.1112/JTOPOL/JTQ024zbMATH Open1204.58007arXiv0906.4499OpenAlexW3104926055MaRDI QIDQ4930554FDOQ4930554

Authors: Dirk Schütz 

Publication date: 29 September 2010

Published in: Journal of Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We give a proof of a Conjecture of Walker which states that one can recover the lengths of the bars of a circular linkage from the cohomology ring of the configuration space. For a large class of length vectors, this has been shown by Farber, Hausmann and Schuetz. In the remaining cases, we use Morse theory and the fundamental group to describe a subring of the cohomology invariant under graded ring isomorphism. From this subring the conjecture can be derived by applying a result of Gubeladze on the isomorphism problem of monoidal rings.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0906.4499

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zbMATH Keywords

cobordismfundamental groupMorse functioncohomological rigiditychamber

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Graded rings and modules (associative rings and algebras) (16W50) Critical points and critical submanifolds in differential topology (57R70) Moduli problems for topological structures (58D29) Rigidity and flexibility of structures (aspects of discrete geometry) (52C25) Algebraic topology on manifolds and differential topology (57R19)

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• The orbit space of a hypersurface of a torus by an involution
• On the zero-divisor-cup-length of spaces of oriented isometry classes of planar polygons
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• Homology of the universal covering of planar polygon spaces
• The topology of spaces of polygons

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