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Spin structures of flat manifolds of diagonal type

Algebraic Topology 2019-05-29 v1 Geometric Topology

Abstract

For each integer dd at least two, we construct non-spin closed oriented flat manifolds with holonomy group Z2d\mathbb Z_2^d and with the property that all of their finite proper covers have a spin structure. Moreover, all such covers have trivial Stiefel-Whitney classes.

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@article{arxiv.1602.08585,
  title  = {Spin structures of flat manifolds of diagonal type},
  author = {Rafał Lutowski and Nansen Petrosyan and Jerzy Popko and Andrzej Szczepański},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1602.08585},
  year   = {2019}
}

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13 pages