{ "id": "1104.2755", "version": "v4", "published": "2011-04-14T13:16:05.000Z", "updated": "2011-09-26T13:07:25.000Z", "title": "Topological complexity, fibrations and symmetry", "authors": [ "Mark Grant" ], "comment": "Final version, to appear in Topology and its Applications", "categories": [ "math.AT" ], "abstract": "We show how locally smooth actions of compact Lie groups on a manifold $X$ can be used to obtain new upper bounds for the topological complexity $\\TC(X)$, in the sense of Farber. We also obtain new bounds for the topological complexity of finitely generated torsion-free nilpotent groups.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v4", "updated": "2011-09-26T13:07:25.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "55M99", "55M30", "57S15", "68T40" ], "keywords": [ "topological complexity", "fibrations", "compact lie groups", "finitely generated torsion-free nilpotent groups", "upper bounds" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 0, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "adsabs": "2011arXiv1104.2755G" } } }