A minimal Brieskorn 5-sphere in the Gromoll-Meyer sphere and its applications
Differential Geometry
2007-05-23 v1 Geometric Topology
Abstract
We recognize the Gromoll-Meyer sphere Sigma^7 as the geodesic join of a simple closed geodesic and a minimal subsphere Sigma^5, which can be equivariantly identified with the Brieskorn sphere W^5_3. As applications we in particular determine the full isometry group of Sigma^7, classify all closed subgroups that act freely, determine the homotopy type of the corresponding orbit spaces, identify the Hirsch-Milnor involution in dimension 5 with the Calabi involution of W^5_3, and obtain explicit formulas for diffeomorphisms between the Brieskorn spheres W^5_3 and W^13_3 with standard Euclidean spheres.
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@article{arxiv.math/0606769,
title = {A minimal Brieskorn 5-sphere in the Gromoll-Meyer sphere and its applications},
author = {Carlos Duran and Thomas Puettmann},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0606769},
year = {2007}
}