Oriented bordism
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1 Introduction
By the Pontrjagin-Thom isomorphism the oriented bordism groups of closed oriented manifolds are isomorphic to the homotopy groups of the Thom spectrum .
2 Generators
, generated by a point.
, as circles bound disks.
, as oriented surfaces bound handlebodies.
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, generated by the complex projective space .
, generated by the Wu manifold.
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is a polynomial ring, with generators .
3 Invariants
Signature. Pontryagin numbers. Stiefel-Whitney numbers.
4 Classification
Thom [Thom1954] computed . This is equivalent to the computation of the rational (co)homology of (see for the isomorphism). The cohomology is a polynomial ring with generators the Pontryagin classes, so that Pontryagin numbers give an additive isomorphism. Milnor, Rohlin, Wall[Wall1960]
5 Further topics
6 References
- [Thom1954] R. Thom, Quelques propriétés globales des variétés différentiables, Comment. Math. Helv. 28 (1954), 17–86. MR0061823 (15,890a) Zbl 0057.15502
- [Wall1960] C. T. C. Wall, Determination of the cobordism ring, Ann. of Math. (2) 72 (1960), 292–311. MR0120654 (22 #11403) Zbl 0097.38801
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