A diffeomorphism classification of manifolds which are like projective planes (Q2466961)

This paper gives a complete diffeomorphism classification of simply connected closed manifolds \(M\) with integral homology \(H_{\ast }(M)= \mathbb{Z} \oplus \mathbb{Z} \oplus \mathbb{Z} \) if \(\dim M\neq 4\). The main results say that \(M\) is diffeomorphic to the connected sum of \(M\) and any homotopy sphere, that \(M\) is determined by the Pontrjagin number \(P_{m}^{2}[M]\in \mathbb Z\) and the point space of a smooth topological projective plane is the classical projective space.