Topological complexity, fibrations and symmetry

Mark Grant*

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Abstract

We show how locally smooth actions of compact Lie groups on a manifold X can be used to obtain new upper bounds for the topological complexity TC(X), in the sense of Farber. We also obtain new bounds for the topological complexity of finitely generated torsion-free nilpotent groups. (C) 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)88-97
Number of pages10
JournalTopology and its Applications
Volume159
Issue number1
Early online date18 Aug 2011
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan 2012

Bibliographical note

Acknowledgements The author would like to thank John Oprea and Greg Lupton for stimulating discussions, and Michael Farber, Peter Landweber and the anonymous referee for their comments on earlier drafts of the paper.

Keywords

  • topological complexity
  • fibrations
  • transformation groups
  • Lusternik-Schnirelmann category
  • robot motion

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