Abstract: We study categories of d-dimensional cobordisms from the perspective of Tillmann and Galatius-Madsen-Tillmann-Weiss. There is a category of closed smooth (d-1)-manifolds and smooth d-dimensional cobordisms, equipped with generalised orientations specified by a fibration . The main result of GMTW is a determination of the homotopy type of the classifying space . The goal of the present paper is a systematic investigation of subcategories of having classifying space homotopy equivalent to that of , the smaller such the better. We prove that in most cases of interest, can be chosen to be a homotopy commutative monoid. As a consequence we prove that the stable cohomology of many moduli spaces of surfaces with -structure is the cohomology of the infinite loop space of a certain Thom spectrum. This was known for certain special , using homological stability results; our work is independent of such results and covers many more cases.
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