Projective planes and their look-alikes. (Q1778005)

This paper classifies all closed topological manifolds with the integral homology of an orientable projective plane. In other words all manifolds for which \(H_{*}(M) \cong {\mathbb Z}^{3}\). Poincaré duality implies that these must be of the homotopy type of a projective plane. The classification finds more manifolds than were found by \textit{J. Eells} and \textit{N. H. Kuiper} [Publ. Math., Inst. Hautes Étud. Sci. 14, 181--222 (1962; Zbl 0109.15701)]. This is a result of working with spherical fibrations rather than vector bundles. A complete set of invariants for each class is given. The paper reviews much of the earlier work and so is largely self contained.