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We define a natural 2-categorical structure on the base category of a large class of Grothendieck fibrations. Given any model category $\mathbf{C}$, we apply this construction to a fibration whose fibers are the homotopy categories of the…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2022-02-24 Joseph Helfer

The $s$-th higher topological complexity of a space $X$, $TC_s(X)$, can be estimated from above by homotopical methods, and from below by homological methods. We give a thorough analysis of the gap between such estimates when $X=RP^m$, the…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2016-09-27 Natalia Cadavid , Jesús González , Aldo Guzmán-Sáenz

The sphere $S^2$ and the torus $T^2$ are the only closed connected surfaces for which higher topological complexities are known (for each $n\in\{2,3,...\}\subset\mathbb{N}$, $\mathrm{TC}_n(S^2)=n$ and $\mathrm{TC}_n(T^2)=2n-2$). This text…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2019-03-01 Ibai Basabe

This work serves as an opening and basis of an ongoing program investigating topological and geometric aspects of the moduli space of smooth fiberings on a manifold. The present paper focuses on the algebraic and differential topology of…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-08-20 Ziqi Fang

This paper presents a combinatorial analog of topological complexity for finite spaces. We demonstrate that this coincides with the genuine topological complexity of the original finite space, and constitutes an upper bound for the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-03-22 Kohei Tanaka

We introduce a bivariate version of topological complexity, $\mathrm{TC}(f,g)$, associated with two continuous maps $f\colon X\to Z$ and $g\colon Y\to Z$. This invariant measures the minimal number of continuous motion planning rules…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2026-01-23 Jose Manuel Garcia Calcines , Jose Antonio Vilches Alarcon

Homotopy type theory is a formal language for doing abstract homotopy theory -- the study of identifications. But in unmodified homotopy type theory, there is no way to say that these identifications come from identifying the path-connected…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2022-04-06 David Jaz Myers

We provide an upper bound on the topological complexity of twisted products. We use it to give an estimate $$TC(X)\le TC(\pi_1(X))+\dim X$$ of the topological complexity of a space in terms of its dimension and the complexity of its…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2013-12-03 Alexander Dranishnikov

We proof here the existence of a topological thick and thin decomposition of any closed definable thick isolated singularity germ in the spirit of the recently discovered metric thick and thin decomposition of complex normal surface…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2012-08-22 Lev Birbrair , Alexandre Fernandes , Vincent Grandjean

We study certain topological problems that are inspired by applications to autonomous robot manipulation. Consider a continuous map $f\colon X\to Y$, where $f$ can be a kinematic map from the configuration space $X$ to the working space $Y$…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2019-12-04 Petar Pavešić

We establish upper bounds for the complexity of Seifert fibered manifolds with nonempty boundary. In particular, we obtain potentially sharp bounds on the complexity of torus knot complements.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2013-02-18 Evgeny Fominykh , Bert Wiest

We show a method to determine topological complexity from the fibrewise view point, which provides an alternative proof for tc(K) = 4, where K denotes Klein bottle.

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2018-07-23 Norio Iwase , Michihiro Sakai , Mitsunobu Tsutaya

We prove the formula \begin{equation*} TC(X\vee Y)=\max\{TC(X),TC(Y),cat(X\times Y)\} \end{equation*} for the topological complexity of the wedge $X\vee Y$.

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2021-01-26 Cesar A. Ipanaque Zapata

Although random cell complexes occur throughout the physical sciences, there does not appear to be a standard way to quantify their statistical similarities and differences. The various proposals in the literature are usually motivated by…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2016-06-15 Benjamin Schweinhart , Jeremy Mason , Robert MacPherson

We prove for non-elementary torsion-free hyperbolic groups $\Gamma$ and all $r\ge 2$ that the higher topological complexity ${\sf{TC}}_r(\Gamma)$ is equal to $r\cdot \mathrm{cd}(\Gamma)$. In particular, hyperbolic groups satisfy the…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-01-15 Sam Hughes , Kevin Li

In this paper, we prove that certain spherical fibrations over certain CW-complexes are stably fibre homotopy equivalent to $\mm{TOP}$-spherical fibrations (see Definition 1,1). Applying this result, we get a sufficient condition for…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-04-01 Wen Shen

The notion of parametrized topological complexity, introduced by Cohen, Farber and Weinberger, is extended to fibrewise spaces which are not necessarily Hurewicz fibrations. After exploring some formal properties of this extension we also…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2021-03-19 J. M. Garcia-Calcines

We develop a homotopical framework for small categories that extends classical invarints of algebraic topology to the categorical setting. Our approach is based on the construction of genuine path category, obtained trough a localization…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Isaac Carcacía-Campos , Enrique Macías-Virgós , David Mosquera-Lois

We gather conditions on a class H of continuous maps of topological spaces that allow a reasonable theory of fibrations up to an equivalence (a map from this class) which we call H-fibrations. The weak homotopy equivalences recover…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2010-01-14 Lukáš Vokřínek

In this paper, we study h-fibrations, a weak homotopical version of fibrations which have weak covering homotopy property. We present some homotopical analogue of the notions related to fibrations and characterize h-fibrations using them.…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2017-02-14 Mehdi Tajik , Behrooz Mashayekhy , Ali Pakdaman