Topological complexity, fibrations and symmetry

DOI10.1016/J.TOPOL.2011.07.025zbMATH Open1230.55003arXiv1104.2755OpenAlexW1970438765MaRDI QIDQ649798FDOQ649798

Authors: Mark Grant 

Publication date: 6 December 2011

Published in: Topology and its Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We show how locally smooth actions of compact Lie groups on a manifold $X$ can be used to obtain new upper bounds for the topological complexity $TC(X)$, in the sense of Farber. We also obtain new bounds for the topological complexity of finitely generated torsion-free nilpotent groups.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1104.2755

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zbMATH Keywords

fibrationstransformation groupsTopological complexity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Compact Lie groups of differentiable transformations (57S15) Artificial intelligence for robotics (68T40) Lyusternik-Shnirel'man category of a space, topological complexity à la Farber, topological robotics (topological aspects) (55M30) Classical topics in algebraic topology (55M99)

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