Topological Complexities of Surfaces

Publication date: 31 January 2014

Abstract: The sphere

S^{2}

and the torus

T^{2}

are the only closed connected surfaces for which higher topological complexities are known (for each

n i n 2, 3, ... s u b s e t m a t h b b N

,

m a t h r m {T C}_{n} (S^{2}) = n

and

m a t h r m {T C}_{n} (T^{2}) = 2 n - 2

). This text aims to find topological complexities for most other closed connected surfaces. For all but

S^{2}

,

T^{2}

, the projective plane (

m a t h b b R m a t h b b P^{2}

) and the Klein bottle the

n

-th topological complexity is

2 n

.

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