Norio Iwase

Mailing Adress: Faculty of Mathematics, Kyushu University, Motooka 744, Fukuoka 819-0395, Japan
E-mail Adress: iwase_AT__AT_math.kyushu-u.ac.jp

Japanese

Authors.
myself and Michihiro Sakai
Journal.
preprint.
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 the diagonal. In addition, our method in studying fibrewise L-S category is able to treat a fibrewise space with singular fibres.

Topological complexity is a fibrewise L-S category (adobe-pdf file, 481.1 Kbytes)