Spin-structures on real Bott manifolds

DOI10.4134/JKMS.J160084MaRDI QIDQ2970016zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors A. Gąsior

Publication date 24 March 2017

Published in Journal of the Korean Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1506.06884, http://www.mathnet.or.kr/mathnet/kms_content.php?no=468189

zbMATH Keywords

real Bott manifoldsspin-structure

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Other geometric groups, including crystallographic groups (20H15) Spin and Spin({}^c) geometry (53C27) Issues of holonomy in differential geometry (53C29) Specialized structures on manifolds (spin manifolds, framed manifolds, etc.) (57R15) Groups acting on specific manifolds (57S25)

Abstract: Let ${\displaystyle }$M_{n}stackrel{mathbb R P^1} o M_{n-1}stackrel{mathbb R P^1} oldotsstackrel{mathbb R P^1} o M_{1}stackrel{mathbb R P^1} o M_0 = { �ullet} ${\displaystyle }$ be a sequence of real projective bundles such that $M_{i}o{M}_{i-1}$, $i=1,2,ldots,n$, is a projective bundle of a Whitney sum of a real line bundle $L_{i-1}$ and the trivial line bundle over $M_{i-1}$. The above sequence is called the real Bott tower and the top manifold $M_n$ is called the real Bott manifold. There are a few ways to decide whether there exists a Spin-structure on an oriented flat manifold $M^n$. An oriented flat manifold $M^n$ has a Spin-structure if and only if there exists a homomorphism $epsiloncolonGammaooperatornameSpin(n)$ such that $lambd{a}_{n}epsilon=p$, where $lambd{a}_n:operatornameSpin(n)ooperatornameSO(n)$ is the covering map. There is an equivalent condition for existence of Spin-structure. This is well known that the closed oriented differential manifold $M$ has a Spin-structure if and only if the second Stiefel-Whitney class vanishes. Our paper is a sequel of A. Gk{a}sior, A. Szczepa'nski, Flat manifolds with holonomy group $Z_2^k$ of diagonal type, Osaka J. Math. 51 (2014), 1015 - 1025. There are given non-complete conditions of the existence of Spin-structures on real Bott manifolds. In this paper, if k is even, we formulate necessary and sufficient conditions of the existence of Spin-structure on real Bott manifolds. Here is our main result The real Bott manifold $M(A)$ has a Spin-structure if and only for all $1leqi<jleqn$ manifolds $M(A_{ij})$ have a Spin-structure, where $A_{ij}$ are $nimesn$-integer matrices with $i-$th and $j-$th nonzero rows.

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