Computations in rational sectional category

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Authors José Gabriel Carrasquel-Vera

Publication date 2 November 2015

Published in Bulletin of the Belgian Mathematical Society - Simon Stevin (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1205.4597, https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.bbms/1442364592

zbMATH Keywords

rational homotopysectional categorytopological complexity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Lyusternik-Shnirel'man category of a space, topological complexity à la Farber, topological robotics (topological aspects) (55M30) Rational homotopy theory (55P62)

Abstract: We give simple upper bounds for rational sectional category and use them to compute invariants of the type of Farber's topological complexity of rational spaces. In particular we show that the sectional category of formal morphisms reaches its cohomological lower bound and give a method to compute higher topological complexity of formal spaces in terms of their cohomology.

Review text

The \(n^{th}\) topological complexity of a space \(X\), \(TC_n(X)\) defined by Farber, is the sectional category of the diagonal map \(\Delta : X\to X^n\). To approximate \(TC_n(X)\), Carrasquel gives first new upper bounds for the rational sectional category of a map \(f\), i.e. for the sectional category of its rationalization. Denote by \(\varphi : (A,d)\to (B,d)\) a surjective Sullivan model of \(f\) and by \(K\) its kernel. Then for each integer \(n\), denote by \(\rho_n\) the projection \((A,d)\to (A/K^n,d)\). The integer \(sc(f)\) is the first integer \(n\) such that \(\rho_n\) admits a homotopy retraction. Then Carrasquel proves that secat \((f_0)\leq sc(f)\). The text contains also the computation of the rational topological complexity of some specific spaces. In particular for a formal space we have \(TC_n(X_0) \geq TC_2(X_0) + (n-2) \text{cat}(X_0)\), where \(X_0\) denotes the rationalization of \(X\).

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