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On the topology of real Bott manifolds

Algebraic Topology 2018-12-04 v2

Abstract

The main aim of this article is to give a necessary and sufficient condition for a real Bott manifold to admit a spin structure and further give a combinatorial characterization for the spin structure in terms of the associated acyclic digraph.

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@article{arxiv.1704.02177,
  title  = {On the topology of real Bott manifolds},
  author = {Raisa Dsouza},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1704.02177},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

19 pages, 4 figures. It is a combination of some results from arXiv:1609.05630 and some new results