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Distributional Topological Complexity and LS-category

Geometric Topology 2024-09-09 v2 Algebraic Topology

Abstract

We define a new version of Topological Complexity (TC) of a space, denoted as dTC\text{dTC}, which, we think, fits better for motion planning for some autonomous systems. Like Topological complexity, \text{dTC} is also a homotopy invariant. Also, dTC\text{dTC} has a corresponding analog, denoted as dcat\text{dcat}, to the Lusternik-Schnirelmann category (cat). In this paper, we do computations and estimates for both dTC(X)\text{dTC(X)} and dcat(X)\text{dcat(X)} for some spaces XX as well as a comparison with TC(X)\text{TC(X)} and cat(X)\text{cat(X)}.

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@article{arxiv.2401.04272,
  title  = {Distributional Topological Complexity and LS-category},
  author = {Alexander Dranishnikov and Ekansh Jauhari},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2401.04272},
  year   = {2024}
}
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