Weak sectional category

DOI10.1112/JLMS/JDQ048MaRDI QIDQ3066397zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Lucile Vandembroucq, José Calcines

Publication date 10 January 2011

Published in Journal of the London Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0901.4426

zbMATH Keywords

motion planning problemstopological complexity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Lyusternik-Shnirel'man category of a space, topological complexity à la Farber, topological robotics (topological aspects) (55M30) Kinematics of mechanisms and robots (70B15) Robot dynamics and control of rigid bodies (70E60) Control of mechanical systems (70Q05) Automated systems (robots, etc.) in control theory (93C85)

Abstract: Based on a Whitehead-type characterization of the sectional category we develop the notion of weak sectional category. This is a new lower bound of the sectional category, which is inspired by the notion of weak category in the sense of Berstein-Hilton. We establish several properties and inequalities, including the fact that the weak sectional category is a better lower bound for the sectional category than the classical one given by the nilpotency of the kernel of the induced map in cohomology. Finally, we apply our results in the study of the topological complexity in the sense of Farber.

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