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The Chow--Witt rings of the classifying space of quadratically oriented bundles

Algebraic Topology 2025-01-14 v1 Algebraic Geometry K-Theory and Homology

Abstract

In this paper we compute the Chow--Witt rings of the classifying space BSLnc{\rm BSL}_n^c of quadratically oriented vector bundles of rank nn. We also discuss the corresponding quadratically-oriented cobordism spectrum MSLc{\rm MSL}^c and show that it is equivalent to MSL\rm{MSL} after inverting η\eta.

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@article{arxiv.2501.06302,
  title  = {The Chow--Witt rings of the classifying space of quadratically oriented bundles},
  author = {Thomas Brazelton and Matthias Wendt},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.06302},
  year   = {2025}
}

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