Topological Complexity is a Fibrewise L-S Category
Abstract
Topological complexity of a space is introduced by M. Farber to measure how much complex the space is, which is first considered on a configuration space of a motion planning of a robot arm. We also consider a stronger version of topological complexity with an additional condition: in a robot motion planning, a motion must be stasis if the initial and the terminal states are the same. Our main goal is to show the equalities and , where is a fibrewise pointed space over whose projection and section are given by the canonical projection to the second factor and XB\catBB{X} and that for a locally finite simplicial complex , we have . While we still conjecture that Theorem 1.13 is true, this problem means that, at present, no proof is given to exist. Alternatively, we show the difference between two invariants and is at most 1 and the conjecture is true for some cases. We give further corrections mainly in the proof of Theorem 1.12.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1202.5286,
title = {Topological Complexity is a Fibrewise L-S Category},
author = {Norio Iwase and Michihiro Sakai},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1202.5286},
year = {2012}
}
Comments
12pages original + 5pages errata