Algebraic and Topological Combinatorics

Special Session at the Spring Eastern Section Meeting
of the American Mathematical Society


Courant Institute, New York, NY
April 12-13, 2003



Serge Tabachnikov
(Pennsylvania State University)


Complexity of the motion planning problem in the real projective space


Abstract: I will define the topological complexity of the motion problem. The computation of the complexity of the motion problem in the real projective space is proved to be equivalent to the immersion problem of the real projective space to vector space.

The talk is based on joint work with M. Farber (Tel Aviv University) and S. Yuzvinsky (University of Oregon).


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