Markus Hausmann (Bonn)

Abstract: The bordism ring of manifolds equipped with an involution was computed additively by Conner-Floyd (1965) and multiplicatively by Alexander (1972). Alexander’s description is explicit but complicated and doesn’t seem to enjoy a simple algebraic interpretation.
In this talk I will discuss that if one extends the problem and
1) considers the collection of bordism rings of manifolds with n commuting involutions for all n, and
2) takes into account the representation sphere-grading,
then there is a simple algebraic universal property.

This is joint work with Stefan Schwede.

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