Line Bundle Twists for Unitary Bordism are Ghosts
Abstract
We prove that the canonical twist ζ K(Z,3) → BGL1(MSpinc) does not extend to a twist for unitary bordism by showing that every continuous map f K(Z,3) → BGL1(MU) loops to a null homotopic map.
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