Revisiting pinors and orientability

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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)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0907.4334

zbMATH Keywords

discrete group of transformationsdouble coveringspin structurespinors

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

(G)-structures (53C10) Specialized structures on manifolds (spin manifolds, framed manifolds, etc.) (57R15)

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.

Review text

Let \(\widetilde X\) be the orientable double cover of a non-orientable manifold \(X\) equipped with the orientation-reversing involution \(\tau\) such that \(\widetilde X/\tau\simeq X\). The authors study the relations between pin structures on \(X\) and \(\tau\)-invariant pin structures on \(\widetilde X\). They show that there is not a simple bijection, but that the natural map induced by pull-back is neither injective nor surjective. By imposing additional conditions the authors recover the full correspondence. Moreover, the authors consider examples of surfaces, with detailed computations for the real projective plane, the Klein bottle and the Moebius strip.

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