Spaces of topological complexity one

DOI10.4310/HHA.2013.V15.N2.A4MaRDI QIDQ360564zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Mark Grant, Gregory Lupton, John Oprea

Publication date 27 August 2013

Published in Homology, Homotopy and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1207.4725

zbMATH Keywords

topological complexityLusternik-Schnirelmann categoryacyclic spaceco-H-spacehomology spheretopological robotics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Artificial intelligence for robotics (68T40) Lyusternik-Shnirel'man category of a space, topological complexity à la Farber, topological robotics (topological aspects) (55M30)

Abstract: We prove that a space whose topological complexity equals 1 is homotopy equivalent to some odd-dimensional sphere. We prove a similar result, although not in complete generality, for spaces X whose higher topological complexity TC_n(X) is as low as possible, namely n-1.

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