Cobordism Obstructions to Complex Sections

Abstract

A notion of vector field cobordism for oriented manifolds was defined by B\"okstedt and Svane. We extend this notion to define complex section cobordism for almost complex manifolds. We then determine the complex section cobordism groups and a relevant cobordism category. We describe an obstruction which tells us when a cobordism class contains a manifold, which can be equipped with $r$ linearly independent complex sections, in terms of the Chern classes. Finally, we show that this obstruction vanishes for certain multiplicative generators in the complex cobordism ring.