The integral-lift conjecture for the top Chern–Dold character of IP-theory

Let IPd\mathrm{IP}^d be the degree-dd cohomology theory associated with the invertible-phase Ω\Omega-spectrum, and let

chtop ⁣:IPdHQd+2\operatorname{ch}_{\mathrm{top}}\colon \mathrm{IP}^d\longrightarrow \mathrm{H}\mathbb{Q}^{d+2}

be the top Chern–Dold character. Integral-lift conjecture. The top Chern–Dold character has an integral lift for d=3,4d=3,4, but has no such lift for d6d\geq 6. The conjecture is motivated by the paper's computations concerning maps from integral cohomology into the Anderson dual of the Thom spectrum; the cases d=3,4d=3,4 and the obstruction for d6d\geq 6 are presented as the expected pattern.

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Yosuke Kubota, “Stable homotopy theory of invertible gapped quantum spin systems I: Kitaev's Ω-spectrum”, arXiv:2503.12618 (2025).

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