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Topological complexity
of unordered configuration spaces of surfaces
Andrea Bianchi and David Recio-Mitter |
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Algebraic & Geometric Topology 19 (2019) 1359–1384
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Abstract |
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We determine the topological complexity of unordered configuration spaces on almost all punctured surfaces (both orientable and nonorientable). We also give improved bounds for the topological complexity of unordered configuration spaces on all aspherical closed surfaces, reducing it to three possible values. The main methods used in the proofs were developed in 2015 by Grant, Lupton and Oprea to give bounds for the topological complexity of aspherical spaces. As such this paper is also part of the current effort to study the topological complexity of aspherical spaces and it presents many further examples where these methods strongly improve upon the lower bounds given by zero-divisor cup-length. |
Keywords
topological complexity, braid groups, robotics, surfaces,
algebraic topology
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Mathematical Subject Classification 2010
Primary: 55M99, 55P20
Secondary: 20J06, 55M30, 68T40
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Publication
Received: 23 February 2018
Revised: 21 October 2018
Accepted: 1 November 2018
Published: 21 May 2019
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Authors |
| Andrea Bianchi | |
| Mathematics Institute University of Bonn Bonn Germany |
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| David Recio-Mitter | |
| Institute of Mathematics University of Aberdeen Aberdeen United Kingdom |
Department of Mathematics Lehigh University Bethlehem, PA United States |
