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On the topological complexity of manifolds with abelian fundamental group

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Resumo:We find conditions which ensure that the topological complexity of a closed manifold M with abelian fundamental group is nonmaximal, and see through examples that our conditions are sharp. This generalizes results of Costa and Farber on the topological complexity of spaces with small fundamen- tal group. Relaxing the commutativity condition on the fundamental group, we also generalize results of Dranishnikov on the Lusternik–Schnirelmann category of the cofibre of the diagonal map ∆ : M → M × M for nonorientable surfaces by establishing the nonmaximality of this invariant for a large class of manifolds.
Autores principais:Cohen, Daniel C.
Outros Autores:Vandembroucq, Lucile
Assunto:LS-category Topological complexity Lusternik-Schnirelmann category Ciências Naturais::Matemáticas
Ano:2021
País:Portugal
Tipo de documento:artigo
Tipo de acesso:acesso aberto
Instituição associada:Universidade do Minho
Idioma:inglês
Origem:RepositóriUM - Universidade do Minho
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Resumo:We find conditions which ensure that the topological complexity of a closed manifold M with abelian fundamental group is nonmaximal, and see through examples that our conditions are sharp. This generalizes results of Costa and Farber on the topological complexity of spaces with small fundamen- tal group. Relaxing the commutativity condition on the fundamental group, we also generalize results of Dranishnikov on the Lusternik–Schnirelmann category of the cofibre of the diagonal map ∆ : M → M × M for nonorientable surfaces by establishing the nonmaximality of this invariant for a large class of manifolds.