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The first Stiefel Whitney class v.s. fermion eta invariant v.s. spin structure v.s. $H^1(M,\mathbb{Z}_2)$
$H^1(M,\mathbb{Z}_2)$ specifies the 1st cohomology class of manifold $M$ (can be regarded as spacetime) with $\mathbb{Z}_2$ coefficient,
it is often to see that we say the 1st Stiefel Whitney class
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Proving a Result About Pontryagin Numbers Without Forms
I've been reading the book Geometry of Differential Forms by Shigeyuki Morita, and I came across the following theorem on page 226 the other day:
Proposition 5.53 (Pontryagin). Two cobordant closed (...
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