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Biquotients with singly generated rational cohomology

Differential Geometry 2017-06-27 v2 Algebraic Topology

Abstract

We classify all biquotients whose rational cohomology rings are generated by one element. As a consequence we show that the Gromoll-Meyer 7-sphere is the only exotic sphere which can be written as a biquotient.

Cite

@article{arxiv.math/0210231,
  title  = {Biquotients with singly generated rational cohomology},
  author = {Vitali Kapovitch and Wolfgang Ziller},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0210231},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

A missing homogeneous example added in Theorem A, as was pointed out by Jason DeVito