Homological obstructions to string orientations

DOI10.1093/IMRN/RNQ237MaRDI QIDQ3094420zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Christopher L. Douglas, André Henriques, Michael A. Hill

Publication date 25 October 2011

Published in IMRN. International Mathematics Research Notices (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0810.2131

zbMATH Keywords

(co)bordism theoryGeneralized (co)homology theorySteenrod operations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Generalized (extraordinary) homology and cohomology theories in algebraic topology (55N20) Bordism and cobordism theories and formal group laws in algebraic topology (55N22) Spanier-Whitehead duality (55P25) Primary cohomology operations in algebraic topology (55S05) Specialized structures on manifolds (spin manifolds, framed manifolds, etc.) (57R15) Algebraic topology on manifolds and differential topology (57R19) Homology and cohomology of homogeneous spaces of Lie groups (57T15)

Abstract: We observe that the Poincare duality isomorphism for a string manifold is an isomorphism of modules over the subalgebra A(2) of the modulo 2 Steenrod algebra. In particular, the pattern of the operations Sq^1, Sq^2, and Sq^4 on the cohomology of a string manifold has a symmetry around the middle dimension. We characterize this kind of cohomology operation duality in term of the annihilator of the Thom class of the negative tangent bundle, and in terms of the vanishing of top-degree cohomology operations. We also indicate how the existence of such an operation-preserving duality implies the integrality of certain polynomials in the Pontryagin classes of the manifold.

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