Topological complexity of motion planning and Massey products

Mark Grant

Banach Center Publications (2009)

  • Volume: 85, Issue: 1, page 193-203
  • ISSN: 0137-6934

Abstract

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We employ Massey products to find sharper lower bounds for the Schwarz genus of a fibration than those previously known. In particular we give examples of non-formal spaces X for which the topological complexity TC(X) (defined to be the genus of the free path fibration on X) is greater than the zero-divisors cup-length plus one.

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Mark Grant. "Topological complexity of motion planning and Massey products." Banach Center Publications 85.1 (2009): 193-203. <http://eudml.org/doc/282577>.

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