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Curvature operators and rational cobordism

Differential Geometry 2025-09-23 v2

Abstract

We determine linear inequalities on the eigenvalues of curvature operators that imply vanishing of the twisted A^\hat A genus on a closed Riemannian spin manifold, where the twisting bundle is any prescribed parallel bundle of tensors. These inequalities yield surgery-stable curvature conditions tailored to annihilate further rational cobordism invariants, such as the Witten genus, elliptic genus, signature, and even the rational cobordism class itself.

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@article{arxiv.2212.07548,
  title  = {Curvature operators and rational cobordism},
  author = {Renato G. Bettiol and McFeely Jackson Goodman},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2212.07548},
  year   = {2025}
}

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