nLab B-bordism

Idea

A $B$-bordism is a cobordism $W$ equipped with extra “topological structure” with respect to (B,f)-structure, i.e. in the form of a lift of the classifying map $W \to B O$ of its tangent bundle/stable normal bundle through some fibration $B \to B O$ over the classifying space of the orthogonal group.

Commonly considered are lifts through the Whitehead tower of the orthogonal group), corresponding, in this order, to cobordisms with

• spin structure - spin bordism

• string structure - string bordism

• fivebrane structure - fivebrane bordism

• ninebrane structure - ninebrane bordism

etc.

Examples

flavors of bordism homology theories/cobordism cohomology theories, their representing Thom spectra and cobordism rings:

bordism theory$\;$M(B,f) (B-bordism):

• MFr

• MO, MSO, MSpin, MSpin^c, MSpin^h MString, MFivebrane, M2-Orient, M2-Spin, MNinebrane (see also pin⁻ bordism, pin⁺ bordism, pinᶜ bordism, spin bordism, spinᶜ bordism, spinʰ bordism, string bordism, fivebrane bordism, 2-oriented bordism, 2-spin bordism, ninebrane bordism)

• MU, MSU, MΩΩSU(n)

• MP, MR

• MSp

• MTO, MTSO

• relative bordism theories: MOFr, MUFr, MSUFr

• equivariant bordism theory: equivariant MFr, equivariant MO, equivariant MU

• global equivariant bordism theory: global equivariant mO, global equivariant mU

• algebraic: algebraic cobordism

References

• Manifold Atlas, B-Bordism