The codimension Arf invariant vanishing conjecture

For a closed oriented or non-orientable manifold product with an Arf invariant normal map, the resulting surgery obstruction modulo the ordinary Arf–Kervaire invariant is called a codimension kk Arf invariant. Codimension Arf invariant vanishing conjecture. The codimension kk Arf invariants are trivial for k4k\geq 4. This was a well-known conjecture from the 1980s; the paper disproves the associated oozing conjecture by exhibiting non-trivial examples in codimensions k=2lk=2^l for l2l\text{≥}2.

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Ian Hambleton and Ozgun Unlu, “Closed manifold surgery obstructions and the Oozing Conjecture”, arXiv:2602.05003 (2026).

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