On the topological complexity of aspherical spaces

DOI10.1142/S1793525319500511zbMATH Open1455.55003arXiv1708.06732OpenAlexW2920745193MaRDI QIDQ5115619FDOQ5115619

Michael Farber, Stephan Mescher

Publication date: 17 August 2020

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

Abstract: The well-known theorem of Eilenberg and Ganea expresses the Lusternik - Schnirelmann category of an aspherical space as the cohomological dimension of its fundamental group. In this paper we study a similar problem of determining algebraically the topological complexity of the Eilenberg-MacLane spaces. One of our main results states that in the case when the fundamental group is hyperbolic in the sense of Gromov the topological complexity of an aspherical space $K(pi,1)$ either equals or is by one larger than the cohomological dimension of $piimespi$. We approach the problem by studying essential cohomology classes, i.e. classes which can be obtained from the powers of the canonical class via coefficient homomorphisms. We describe a spectral sequence which allows to specify a full set of obstructions for a cohomology class to be essential. In the case of a hyperbolic group we establish a vanishing property of this spectral sequence which leads to the main result.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1708.06732

zbMATH Keywords

topological complexitytopological roboticsaspherical spaces

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Classical topics in algebraic topology (55M99)

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