Higher topological complexity of hyperbolic groups
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instance of: scholarly article
title: Higher topological complexity of hyperbolic groups
author: Yanyan Li
published in: Journal of Applied and Computational Topology
publication date: 2022-10-04T00:00:00Z
full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.05114
review text: This paper is concerned with higher topological complexity of certain hyperbolic groups. Let \(r \geq 2\) be an integer. Consider the path-fibration \(p : X^{[0,1]} \rightarrow X^{r}\) that maps a path \(\omega: [0, 1] \rightarrow X\) to the tuple \((\omega(0), \omega\frac{1}{r-1}, \dots ,\omega \frac{r-2}{r-1}, \omega(1))\). Then \(TC_{r} (X)\) is defined as the minimal integer \(n\) for which \(X^{r}\) can be covered by \(n + 1\) many open subsets \(U_{0}, \dots ,U_{n}\) such that \(p\) admits a local section over each \(U_{i}\). If no such \(n\) exists, one sets \(TC_{r}(X) :=\infty\). Note that \(TC_{2}(X)\) recovers the usual topological complexity. Let \(\Gamma\) be a non-elementary torsion-free hyperbolic group. Since the higher topological complexities are homotopy invariants, one obtains interesting invariants of groups \(\Gamma\) by setting \(TC_{r} (\Gamma) := TC_{r}(K(\Gamma, 1))\), where \(K(\Gamma, 1)\) is an Eilenberg-MacLane space. In a celebrated result by \textit{A. Dranishnikov} [Proc. Am. Math. Soc. 148, No. 10, 4547--4556 (2020; Zbl 1447.55002)] (see also [\textit{M. Farber} and \textit{S. Mescher}, J. Topol. Anal. 12, No. 2, 293--319 (2020; Zbl 1455.55003)]), the topological complexity \(TC_{2}(\Gamma)\) of groups with cyclic centralisers, such as hyperbolic groups, is equal \(cd(\Gamma \times \Gamma)\). Here \(cd\) denotes the cohomological dimension. The authors generalise this result to all higher topological complexities \(TC_{r} (\Gamma)\) for \(r \geq 2\), as well as to a larger class of groups containing certain toral relatively hyperbolic groups. Theorem 1.1. Let \(r\geq 2\) and let \(\Gamma\) be a torsion-free group with \(cd(\Gamma) \geq 2\). Suppose that \(\Gamma\) admits a malnormal collection of abelian subgroups \(\lbrace P_i \mid i \in I \rbrace\) satisfying \(cd(P^{r}_{ i }) < cd(\Gamma^{r})\) such that the centraliser \(C_{\Gamma}(g)\) is cyclic for every \(g \in \Gamma\) that is not conjugate into any of the \(P_{i}\). Then \(…
reviewed by: Fezzeh Akhtarifar
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 55M30
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 55R35
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 20F67
zbMATH DE Number: 7596101
zbMATH Keywords: higher topological complexity
zbMATH Keywords: hyperbolic groups
zbMATH Keywords: classifying spaces for families of subgroups
MaRDI profile type: MaRDI publication profile
OpenAlex ID: W4210712258
Wikidata QID: Q115600324
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DOI: 10.1007/S41468-022-00088-4
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