Projective planes and their look-alikes
Geometric Topology
2007-05-23 v3 Differential Geometry
Abstract
We classify all closed 1-connected manifolds which look like projective planes, i.e. with integral homology . Furthermore, we give an explicit construction of these manifolds as Thom spaces of open disk bundles.
Cite
@article{arxiv.math/0206145,
title = {Projective planes and their look-alikes},
author = {Linus Kramer},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0206145},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
to appear in: Journal of Differential Geometry