Framed bordism

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1 Introduction

The framed bordism groups \Omega_n^{fr} of manifolds with a framing of the stable normal bundle (or equivalently the stable tangent bundle) are isomorphic to the stable homotopy groups of spheres \pi_n^{s}. The groups are completely determined only in a range up to 62, they seem to be very complicated, and no general description is known. (As an illustration: there is p-torsion in \Omega_*^{fr} for all primes p.)

2 Generators

  • \Omega_0^{fr}=\Zz, generated by a point.
  • \Omega_1^{fr}=\Zz_2, generated by S^1.
  • \Omega_2^{fr}=\Zz_2,
  • \Omega_3^{fr}=\Zz_{24}, generated by the Lie group framing of S^3=SU(2).
  • \Omega_4^{fr}=\Omega_5^{fr}=0.

See this table for more values.

Serre [Serre1951] proved that \Omega_n^{fr} is a finite abelian group for n>0.

3 Invariants

Degree of a map S^n\to S^n. Since stably framed manifolds have stably trivial tangent bundles, all other characteristic numbers are zero.


4 Classification

The case of framed bordism is is the original case of the Pontrjagin-Thom isomorphism, discovered by Pontryagin. The Thom spectrum MPBO corresponding to the path fibration over BO is homotopy equivalent to the sphere spectrum S since the path space is contractible. Thus we get
\displaystyle \Omega_n^{fr} \cong \pi_n(MPBO) \cong \pi_n^s.

Consequently most of the classification results use homotopy theory.

Adams spectral sequence and Novikov's generalization [Ravenel1986]. Toda brackets. Nishida [Nishida1973] proved that in the ring \Omega_*^{fr} all elements of positive degree are nilpotent.

5 Further topics

Kervaire invariant 1, Hopf invariant 1 problems, J-homomorphism, first $p$-torsion in degree

6 References

This page has not been refereed. The information given here might be incomplete or provisional.

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