On 1-connected 8-manifolds with the same homology as \(S^3\times S^5\) (Q2042276)

The article is concerned with simply connected manifolds and Poincaré duality complexes of dimension \(8\) whose integral homology groups are isomorphic to those of \(S^3 \times S^5\). The main result classifies Poincaré duality complexes of this type up to homotopy equivalence, topological manifolds of this type up to homeomorphism and smooth manifolds of this type up to diffeomorphism by listing the respective equivalence classes. The classification of the smooth case uses self-equivalences of \(S^k \times S^n\). Finally, the author discusses results by \textit{C. Escher} and \textit{W. Ziller} [Ann. Global Anal. Geom. 46, No. 1, 23--55 (2014; Zbl 1296.53065)] and shows that there are infinitely many non-equivalent free smooth \(S^1\)-actions on \(S^3 \times S^5\) and \(SU(3)\).