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2026-01-09 10:48 UTC · math.GR · math.GR, math.AT, math.GT

Cobordism, spin structures, and profinite completions

Sam Hughes, Andrew Ng

Let $M$ and $N$ be smooth closed connected aspherical manifolds with good (in the sense of Serre) fundamental groups $G$ and $H$. We show that if $\widehat G\cong \widehat H$, then $M$ and $N$ are cobordant and the signatures of $M$ and $N$ agree modulo $8$. Moreover, $M$ is spin (resp.spin$^\CC$) if and only if $N$ is spin (resp.spin$^\CC$). We consider some analogous results for compact connected aspherical manifolds.
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