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Thursday, February 2, 2023 2:30 PM EST

Michael Albanese, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo

"Spin^h and further generalisations of spin"

The question of which manifolds are spin or spin^c has a simple and complete answer. In this talk we address the same question for the lesser known spin^h manifolds which have appeared in geometry and physics in recent decades. We determine the first obstruction to being spin^h and use this to provide an example of an orientable manifold which is not spin^h. The existence of such an example leads us to consider an infinite sequence of generalised spin structures. In doing so, we determine an answer to the following question: is there an integer k such that every manifold embeds in a spin manifold with codimension at most k?

This is joint work with Aleksandar Milivojevic.

MC 5417

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