Classification of spin structures on four-dimensional almost-flat manifolds

DOI10.1112/S0025579317000560MaRDI QIDQ4604500zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Rafał Lutowski, Nansen Petrosyan, Andrzej Szczepański

Publication date 26 February 2018

Published in Mathematika (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1701.03920

zbMATH Keywords

almost-flat manifoldsinfra-nil manifoldsspin structures on four-folds

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Computational aspects in algebraic geometry (14Q99) Clifford algebras, spinors (15A66) Other matrix groups over rings (20H25) Spin and Spin({}^c) geometry (53C27)

Abstract: Almost-flat manifolds were defined by Gromov as a natural generalisation of flat manifolds and as such share many of their properties. Similarly to flat manifolds, it turns out that the existence of a spin structure on an almost-flat manifold is determined by the canonical orthogonal representation of its fundamental group. Utilising this, we classify the spin structures on all four-dimensional almost-flat manifolds that are not flat. Out of 127 orientable families, there are exactly 15 that are non-spin, the rest are in fact parallelizable.

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