Higher topological complexity and its symmetrization

DOI10.2140/AGT.2014.14.223MaRDI QIDQ740534zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ibai Basabe, Jesús González, Dai Tamaki, Yuli Rudyak

Publication date 3 September 2014

Published in Algebraic \& Geometric Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1009.1851

configuration spaces motion planning topological complexity Lusternik-Schnirelmann category Švarc genus

Discriminantal varieties and configuration spaces in algebraic topology (55R80) Lyusternik-Shnirel'man category of a space, topological complexity à la Farber, topological robotics (topological aspects) (55M30)

Abstract: We develop the properties of the

n

-th sequential topological complexity

T C_{n}

, a homotopy invariant introduced by the third author as an extension of Farber's topological model for studying the complexity of motion planning algorithms in robotics. We exhibit close connections of

T C_{n} (X)

to the Lusternik-Schnirelmann category of cartesian powers of

X

, to the cup-length of the diagonal embedding

X h o o k r i g h t a r r o w X^{n}

, and to the ratio between homotopy dimension and connectivity of

X

. We fully compute the numerical value of

T C_{n}

for products of spheres, closed 1-connected symplectic manifolds, and quaternionic projective spaces. Our study includes two symmetrized versions of

T C_{n} (X)

. The first one, unlike Farber-Grant's symmetric topological complexity, turns out to be a homotopy invariant of

X

; the second one is closely tied to the homotopical properties of the configuration space of cardinality-

n

subsets of

X

. Special attention is given to the case of spheres.

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