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On the higher topological complexity of manifolds with abelian fundamental group

Algebraic Topology 2026-03-03 v1

Abstract

We study the higher (or sequential) topological complexity TCs\mathrm{TC}_s of manifolds with abelian fundamental group. We give sufficient conditions for TCs\mathrm{TC}_s to be non-maximal in both the orientable and non-orientable cases. In combination with cohomological lower bounds, we also obtain some exact values for certain families of manifolds.

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@article{arxiv.2506.06229,
  title  = {On the higher topological complexity of manifolds with abelian fundamental group},
  author = {N. Cadavid-Aguilar and D. Cohen and J. González and S. Hughes and L. Vandembroucq},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.06229},
  year   = {2026}
}