Motion planning in real flag manifolds

DOI10.4310/HHA.2016.V18.N2.A20zbMATH Open1359.55003arXiv1509.02898MaRDI QIDQ505372FDOQ505372

Authors: Jesús González, Bárbara Gutiérrez, Darwin Gutiérrez, Adriana Lara 

Publication date: 20 January 2017

Published in: Homology, Homotopy and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Starting from Borel's description of the mod-2 cohomology of real flag manifolds, we give a minimal presentation of the cohomology ring for semi complete flag manifolds $F_{k,m}:=F(1,ldots,1,m)$ where $1$ is repeated $k$ times. The information is used in order to estimate Farber's topological complexity of these spaces when $m$ approaches (from below) a 2-power. In particular, we get almost sharp estimates for $F_{2,2^e-1}$ which resemble the known situation for the real projective spaces $F_{1,2^e}$. Our results indicate that the agreement between the topological complexity and the immersion dimension of real projective spaces no longer holds for other flag manifolds. More interestingly, we also get corresponding results for the $s$-th (higher) topological complexity of these spaces. Actually, we prove the surprising fact that, as $s$ increases, the estimates become stronger. Indeed, we get several full computations of the higher motion planning problem of these manifolds. This property is also shown to hold for surfaces: we get a complete computation of the higher topological complexity of all closed surfaces (orientable or not). A homotopy-obstruction explanation is included for the phenomenon of having a cohomologically accessible higher topological complexity even when the regular topological complexity is not so accessible.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1509.02898

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zbMATH Keywords

surfacemotion planningtopological complexityflag manifoldszero-divisorscup-length

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Kinematics of mechanisms and robots (70B15) Artificial intelligence for robotics (68T40) Homology and cohomology of homogeneous spaces of Lie groups (57T15) Lyusternik-Shnirel'man category of a space, topological complexity à la Farber, topological robotics (topological aspects) (55M30)

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