Projective planes and their look-alikes.

DOI10.4310/JDG/1090426887zbMATH Open1068.57019arXivmath/0206145OpenAlexW2121869917WikidataQ115201077 ScholiaQ115201077MaRDI QIDQ1778005FDOQ1778005

Authors: Linus Kramer 

Publication date: 26 May 2005

Published in: Journal of Differential Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We classify all closed 1-connected manifolds $M$ which look like projective planes, i.e. with integral homology $H_{\ast }(M)=Z^3$. Furthermore, we give an explicit construction of these manifolds as Thom spaces of open disk bundles.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0206145

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zbMATH Keywords

projective planePontrjagin numbersThom spaceKirby-Siebenmann invariantspherical bundle

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Sphere bundles and vector bundles in algebraic topology (55R25) Differentiable structures in differential topology (57R55) Algebraic topology of manifolds (57N65) Comparison of PL-structures: classification, Hauptvermutung (57Q25)

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