Spin^h and further generalisations of spin

DOI10.1016/J.GEOMPHYS.2021.104174zbMATH Open1464.53063arXiv2008.04934OpenAlexW3129345137MaRDI QIDQ2019532FDOQ2019532

Authors: Michael Albanese, Aleksandar Milivojević 

Publication date: 21 April 2021

Published in: Journal of Geometry and Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The question of which manifolds are spin or spin^c has a simple and complete answer. In this paper we address the same question for spin^h manifolds, which are less studied but have appeared in geometry and physics in recent decades. We determine that the first obstruction to being spin^h is the fifth integral Stiefel-Whitney class W_5. Moreover, we show that every compact orientable manifold of dimension 7 or lower is spin^h, and that there are orientable manifolds which are not spin^h in all higher dimensions. We are then led to consider an infinite sequence of generalised spin structures. In doing so, we show that there is no integer k such that every manifold embeds in a spin manifold with codimension k.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.04934

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zbMATH Keywords

obstruction theoryrational surgeryalmost quaternionicspin\({}^h\) structures

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Spin and Spin({}^c) geometry (53C27)

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