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On distributional topological complexity of groups and manifolds

Geometric Topology 2026-04-24 v4 Algebraic Topology Group Theory

Abstract

We prove the equality \dTC(Γ)=\TC(Γ)\dTC(\Gamma)=\TC(\Gamma) for distributional topological complexity of torsion free hyperbolic and of torsion free nilpotent groups. For the distributional topological complexity of lens spaces we prove the inequality \dTC(Lpn)2p1\dTC(L^n_p)\le 2p-1 and for the distributional LS-category the inequality d\cat(Lpn)p1d\cat(L^n_p)\le p-1 which turns into equality for prime pp and n>pn>p. We use these inequalities to bring counter-examples to the product formula for d\catd\cat and \dTC\dTC.

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@article{arxiv.2509.16759,
  title  = {On distributional topological complexity of groups and manifolds},
  author = {Alexander Dranishnikov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.16759},
  year   = {2026}
}