The realisability conjecture for equivalence of spinor structures

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Let PP be a principal GG-bundle over a manifold MM, let u:QPu:Q\to P be a spinor structure, and let φ:π1(M)π1(G)\varphi:\pi_1(M)\to\pi_1(G) be a homomorphism. Let u:QPu':Q'\to P be the spinor structure corresponding to φ\varphi.

Realisability conjecture. The bundles QQ and QQ' are equivalent if and only if φ\varphi is realisable.

This conjecture would generalise the preceding result, which treats the special case in which all spinor structures are trivial as bundles. It proposes that the bundle type of a spinor structure is determined precisely by whether its associated homomorphism is realisable.

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Primary source

Scott Morrison, “Classifying Spinor Structures”, arXiv:math-ph/0106007 (2001).

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