Explicit formulas for the Hattori-Stong theorem and applications
Differential Geometry
2026-02-25 v2 Combinatorics
Geometric Topology
Abstract
We employ combinatorial techniques to present an explicit formula for the coefficients in front of Chern classes involving in the Hattori-Stong integrability conditions. We also give an evenness condition for the signature of stably almost-complex manifolds in terms of Chern numbers. As an application, it can be showed that the signature of a -dimensional stably almost-complex manifold whose possibly nonzero Chern numbers being and is even, which particularly rules out the existence of such structure on rational projective planes. Some other related results and remarks are also discussed in this article.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2409.05107,
title = {Explicit formulas for the Hattori-Stong theorem and applications},
author = {Ping Li and Wangyang Lin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.05107},
year = {2026}
}
Comments
15 pages, to appear in Algebraic and Geometric Topology