On the higher topological complexity of manifolds with abelian fundamental group
arXiv:2506.06229 · doi:10.1007/s41468-026-00231-5
Abstract
We study the higher (or sequential) topological complexity of manifolds with abelian fundamental group. We give sufficient conditions for 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.