On distributional topological complexity of groups and manifolds

Abstract

We prove the equality $\dTC(\Gamma)=\TC(\Gamma)$ for distributional topological complexity of torsion free hyperbolic and of torsion free nilpotent groups. For the distributional topological complexity of lens spaces we prove the inequality $\dTC(L^n_p)\le 2p-1$ and for the distributional LS-category the inequality $d\cat(L^n_p)\le p-1$ which turns into equality for prime $p$ and $n>p$. We use these inequalities to bring counter-examples to the product formula for $d\cat$ and $\dTC$.