Distributional Topological Complexity of groups

Abstract

We study numerical invariants $d\TC(\Gamma)$ and $d\cat(\Gamma)$ of groups recently introduced in \cite{DJ} and independently in \cite{KW}. We compute $d\TC$ for finite cyclic groups $\mathbb Z_p$ with prime $p$ as well as for nonorientable surfaces of genus $g>3$ (for orientable surfaces it was computed in \cite{DJ}). We prove the formula $$d\TC(G\ast H)=\max\{d\TC (G),d\TC (H), \cd(G\times H)\}$$ for torsion free groups.