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Smooth Structures on the product of 3-connected 8-manifolds with spheres

Geometric Topology 2025-08-06 v1 Algebraic Topology

Abstract

Let MM be a closed, 3-connected, 8-dimensional smooth manifold. In this paper, we compute the concordance inertia group of the product manifold M×SkM\times\mathbb{S}^k for 1k141\leq k\leq 14 and classify all smooth manifolds homeomorphic to M×Sk,M\times\mathbb{S}^k, up to concordance for 1k10.1\leq k\leq 10. Moreover, we provide a diffeomorphism classification of smooth manifolds homeomorphic to M×S1,M\times\mathbb{S}^1, where H4(M;Z)=Z.H^4(M;\mathbb{Z})=\mathbb{Z}.

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@article{arxiv.2502.20736,
  title  = {Smooth Structures on the product of 3-connected 8-manifolds with spheres},
  author = {Ankur Sarkar},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.20736},
  year   = {2025}
}

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