A classic result of Anderson, Brown, and Peterson states that the cobordism spectrum MSpin (respectively, MSpinᶜ) splits as a sum of Eilenberg--Mac Lane spectra and connective covers of real K-theory (respectively, complex K-theory) at 2. We develop a theory of symplectic K-theory classes and use these to build an explicit splitting for MSpinʰ in terms of Eilenberg--Mac Lane spectra and spectra related to symplectic K-theory. This allows us to determine the Spinʰ cobordism groups systematically. We also prove that two Spinʰ-manifolds are cobordant if and only if their underlying unoriented manifolds are cobordant and their KSp-characteristic numbers agree.
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