Cobordism, spin structures, and profinite completions
Group Theory
2026-01-12 v1 Algebraic Topology
Geometric Topology
Abstract
Let and be smooth closed connected aspherical manifolds with good (in the sense of Serre) fundamental groups and . We show that if , then and are cobordant and the signatures of and agree modulo . Moreover, is spin (resp.spin) if and only if is spin (resp.spin). We consider some analogous results for compact connected aspherical manifolds.
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@article{arxiv.2601.05706,
title = {Cobordism, spin structures, and profinite completions},
author = {Sam Hughes and Andrew Ng},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.05706},
year = {2026}
}
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24 pages