Topological complexity of spatial polygon spaces
Abstract
Using known results about their integral cohomology ring, we prove that the topological complexity of the space of n-gons in R3 with prescribed side lengths equals 2n-5, assuming that the space is nonempty and does not contain any straight-line polygons.
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