Compact hyperbolic manifolds without spin structures
Abstract
We exhibit the first examples of compact orientable hyperbolic manifolds that do not have any spin structure. We show that such manifolds exist in all dimensions . The core of the argument is the construction of a compact orientable hyperbolic -manifold that contains a surface of genus with self intersection . The -manifold has an odd intersection form and is hence not spin. It is built by carefully assembling some right angled -cells along a pattern inspired by the minimum trisection of . The manifold is also the first example of a compact orientable hyperbolic -manifold satisfying any of these conditions: 1) is not generated by geodesically immersed surfaces. 2) There is a covering that is a non-trivial bundle over a compact surface.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1904.12720,
title = {Compact hyperbolic manifolds without spin structures},
author = {Bruno Martelli and Stefano Riolo and Leone Slavich},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1904.12720},
year = {2021}
}
Comments
23 pages, 16 figures