Spin^h and further generalisations of spin

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

Authors Michael Albanese, Aleksandar Milivojević 

Publication date 21 April 2021

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

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

zbMATH Keywords

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

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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.

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