Klaus–Teichner conjecture on signature multiplicativity modulo 8

Let F2mEB2nF^{2m} \to E \to B^{2n} be a fibration of oriented Poincaré complexes, and suppose that the action of π1(B)\pi_1(B) on Hm(F;Z2)H^{m}(F;\mathbb Z_2) is trivial. Klaus–Teichner's conjecture. The signature is multiplicative modulo 88:

σ(E)σ(F)σ(B)=0Z8.\sigma(E)-\sigma(F)\sigma(B)=0 \in \mathbb Z_8.

This conjecture weakens the usual trivial-action condition used in signature-multiplicativity results. The source describes an attempted proof using spectral sequences, but supplies no resolution of the conjecture.

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Carmen Rovi, “The signature modulo 8 of fibre bundles”, arXiv:1507.08328 (2015).

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