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Nonnegative curvature, elliptic genus and unbounded Pontryagin numbers

Differential Geometry 2016-07-14 v3

Abstract

We discuss the cobordism type of spin manifolds with nonnegative sectional curvature. We show that in each dimension 4k124k \geq 12, there are infinitely many cobordism types of simply connected and nonnegatively curved spin manifolds. Moreover, we raise and analyze a question about possible cobordism obstructions to nonnegative curvature.

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@article{arxiv.1412.4923,
  title  = {Nonnegative curvature, elliptic genus and unbounded Pontryagin numbers},
  author = {Martin Herrmann and Nicolas Weisskopf},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1412.4923},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

7 pages; minor corrections, accepted version, to appear in Proceedings of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society