Spin structures and spectra of Z₂^k-manifolds

DOI10.1007/S00209-003-0615-YMaRDI QIDQ1762697zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors R. J. Miatello, Ricardo A. Podestá

Publication date 11 February 2005

Published in Mathematische Zeitschrift (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0311354

zbMATH Keywords

Bieberbach manifoldspin structuresspin structures

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Spin and Spin({}^c) geometry (53C27) Isospectrality (58J53)

Abstract: We give necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of pin+, pin- and spin structures on Riemannian manifolds with holonomy group $Z_2^k$. For any n>3 (resp. n>5) we give examples of pairs of compact manifolds (resp. compact orientable manifolds) M_1, M_2, non homeomorphic to each other, that are Laplace isospectral on functions and on p-forms for any p and such that M_1 admits a pin+, or pin-, (resp. spin) structure whereas M_2 does not.

Review text

In this paper the authors study the question whether ``one can hear whether a Riemannian manifold is spin or pin. More precisely, given a compact Riemannian manifold \(M\), does the spectrum of the Laplace operator acting on functions contain the information whether or not \(M\) has a spin (or pin) structure? The answer turns out to be negative. For any \(n\geq 4\) the authors construct pairs of compact flat \(n\)-dimensional Riemannian manifolds \(M_1\) and \(M_2\) (so called Bieberbach manifolds) such that the Laplace operators acting on functions and the ones acting on forms (of all degrees) have the same spectrum on \(M_1\) and on \(M_2\) but \(M_1\) admits a pin structure while \(M_2\) does not. For any \(n\geq 6\) the same is done with orientable Bieberbach manifolds such that \(M_1\) admits a spin structure while \(M_2\) does not.

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