Right-angled Artin groups, polyhedral products and the TC-generating function

DOI10.1017/PRM.2021.26MaRDI QIDQ6353360arXivFDO

Authors Jorge Aguilar-Guzman, Jesús González, John Oprea

Publication date 9 November 2020

Published in arXiv

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1017/PRM.2021.26

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Lyusternik-Shnirel'man category of a space, topological complexity à la Farber, topological robotics (topological aspects) (55M30) Toric topology (57S12)

arXiv classification

math.AT

Abstract: For a graph $Gamma$, let $K(H_{Gamma},1)$ denote the Eilenberg-Mac Lane space associated to the right-angled Artin (RAA) group $H_{Gamma}$ defined by $Gamma$. We use the relationship between the combinatorics of $Gamma$ and the topological complexity of $K(H_{Gamma},1)$ to explain, and generalize to the higher TC realm, Dranishnikov's observation that the topological complexity of a covering space can be larger than that of the base space. In the process, for any positive integer $n$, we construct a graph $mathcal{O}_n$ whose TC-generating function has polynomial numerator of degree $n$. Additionally, motivated by the fact that $K(H_{Gamma},1)$ can be realized as a polyhedral product, we study the LS category and topological complexity of more general polyhedral product spaces. In particular, we use the concept of a strong axial map in order to give an estimate, sharp in a number of cases, of the topological complexity of a polyhedral product whose factors are real projective spaces. Our estimate exhibits a mixed cat-TC phenomenon not present in the case of RAA groups.

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