English

Nash homotopy spheres are standard

Geometric Topology 2011-02-15 v1 Algebraic Geometry

Abstract

We prove that the infinite family of homotopy 4-spheres constructed by Daniel Nash are all diffeomorphic to 4-sphere.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1102.2683,
  title  = {Nash homotopy spheres are standard},
  author = {Selman Akbulut},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1102.2683},
  year   = {2011}
}

Comments

10 pages, 9 figures

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