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On sequential versions of distributional topological complexity

Algebraic Topology 2025-04-25 v4 Geometric Topology

Abstract

We define a (non-decreasing) sequence {dTCm(X)}m2\{\mathsf{dTC}_m(X)\}_{m\ge 2} of higher versions of distributional topological complexity (dTC\mathsf{dTC}) of a space XX introduced by Dranishnikov and Jauhari. This sequence generalizes dTC(X)\mathsf{dTC}(X) in the sense that dTC2(X)=dTC(X)\mathsf{dTC}_2(X) = \mathsf{dTC}(X), and is a direct analog to the classical sequence {TCm(X)}m2\{\mathsf{TC}_m(X)\}_{m\ge 2}. We show that like TCm\mathsf{TC}_m and dTC\mathsf{dTC}, the sequential versions dTCm\mathsf{dTC}_m are also homotopy invariants. Also, dTCm(X)\mathsf{dTC}_m(X) relates with the distributional LS-category (dcat\mathsf{dcat}) of products of XX in the same way as TCm(X)\mathsf{TC}_m(X) relates with the classical LS-category (cat\mathsf{cat}) of products of XX. On one hand, we show that in general, dTCm\mathsf{dTC}_m is a different concept than TCm\mathsf{TC}_m for each m2m \ge 2. On the other hand, by finding sharp cohomological lower bounds to dTCm(X)\mathsf{dTC}_m(X), we provide various examples of closed manifolds XX for which the sequences {TCm(X)}m2\{\mathsf{TC}_m(X)\}_{m\ge 2} and {dTCm(X)}m2\{\mathsf{dTC}_m(X)\}_{m\ge 2} coincide.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2401.17218,
  title  = {On sequential versions of distributional topological complexity},
  author = {Ekansh Jauhari},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2401.17218},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

29 pages. Changes made based on the referee report

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