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Distributional Topological Complexity of groups

Geometric Topology 2025-08-13 v2

Abstract

We study numerical invariants d\TC(Γ)d\TC(\Gamma) and d\cat(Γ)d\cat(\Gamma) of groups recently introduced in \cite{DJ} and independently in \cite{KW}. We compute d\TCd\TC for finite cyclic groups Zp\mathbb Z_p with prime pp as well as for nonorientable surfaces of genus g>3g>3 (for orientable surfaces it was computed in \cite{DJ}). We prove the formula d\TC(GH)=max{d\TC(G),d\TC(H),\cd(G×H)}d\TC(G\ast H)=\max\{d\TC (G),d\TC (H), \cd(G\times H)\} for torsion free groups.

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@article{arxiv.2404.03041,
  title  = {Distributional Topological Complexity of groups},
  author = {Alexander Dranishnikov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.03041},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

The statements and proofs of Proposition 4.5, Theorem 4.6, and Theorem 4.7 we corrected

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