• Bredon Cohomology and Robot Motion Planning 

      [OWP-2017-34] Farber, Michael; Grant, Mark; Lupton, Gregory; Oprea, John (Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, 2017-11-29)
      In this paper we study the topological invariant ${\sf {TC}}(X)$ reflecting the complexity of algorithms for autonomous robot motion. Here, $X$ stands for the configuration space of a system and ${\sf {TC}}(X)$ is, roughly, ...
    • Hight functions on quaternionic Stiefel manifolds 

      [OWP-2015-10] Macías-Virgós, Enrique; Strom, Jeffrey; Tanré, Daniel; Oprea, John (Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, 2015-07-29)
      In this note, we study height functions on quaternionic Stiefel manifolds and prove that all these height functions are Morse-Bott. Among them, we characterize the Morse functions and give a lower bound for their number ...