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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 2n2n-dimensional stably almost-complex manifold whose possibly nonzero Chern numbers being cnc_n and cicnic_ic_{n-i} 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.

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@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

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