Spinc structures and homotopy equivalences

Abstract

We show that a homotopy equivalence between manifolds induces a correspondence between their spinc-structures, even in the presence of 2-torsion. This is proved by generalizing spinc-structures to Poincare complexes. A procedure is given for explicitly computing the correspondence under reasonable hypotheses.

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