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Almost complex structures on connected sums of complex projective spaces

Algebraic Topology 2019-04-10 v4 Differential Geometry K-Theory and Homology

Abstract

We show that the m-fold connected sum m#CP2nm\#\mathbb{C}\mathbb{P}^{2n} admits an almost complex structure if and only if m is odd.

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@article{arxiv.1710.05316,
  title  = {Almost complex structures on connected sums of complex projective spaces},
  author = {Oliver Goertsches and Panagiotis Konstantis},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1710.05316},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

9 pages, changes according to referee's suggestions, added Lemma 2.1, to appear in Ann. K-theory

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