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Cobordism is a fundamental equivalence relation on the class of compact manifolds of the same dimension, set up using the concept of the boundary of a manifold.

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Does $\mathfrak{N}_4$ contain at least four distinct elements?

Let's give a characteristic class proof that they are all different in $\mathfrak{N}_4$: As Tsemo Aristide mentioned, Stiefel-Whitney numbers are cobordism invariants. …
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String Orientation and Level Structures

Atiyah, Bott and Shapiro defined orientations of real and complex K-theory that were later refined to maps of ($E_\infty$-ring) spectra $$MSpin \to KO$$ and $$MSpin^c \to KU.$$ Likewise, but more co …
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