Revisiting pinors and orientability
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zbMATH Open1261.57022arXiv0907.4334MaRDI QIDQ2910083FDOQ2910083
Authors: Fabio Ferrari Ruffino, Raffaele Savelli, L. Bonora 
Publication date: 7 September 2012
Published in: Bollettino dell'Unione Matematica Italiana. Series IX (Search for Journal in Brave)
Abstract: We study the relations between pin structures on a non-orientable even-dimensional manifold, with or without boundary, and pin structures on its orientable double cover, requiring the latter to be invariant under sheet-exchange. We show that there is not a simple bijection, but that the natural map induced by pull-back is neither injective nor surjective: we thus find the conditions to recover a full correspondence. We also show how to describe such a correspondence using spinors instead of pinors on the double cover: this is in a certain sense possible, but in a way that contains anyhow an explicit reference to pinors. We then consider the example of surfaces, with detailed computations for the real projective plane, the Klein bottle and the Moebius strip.
Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0907.4334
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