On homotopy spheres bounding highly connected manifolds
On homotopy spheres bounding highly connected manifolds
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关于高度连通流形边界的同伦球
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1969
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D. Anderson
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D. Anderson
Let a c ITn i(SOm), E WTm A(SOO) and consider the manifold NXx: obtained by plumbing together the total spaces Ec, and ER of the Dm (respectively Dn) bundle over Sn (respectively Sm) with characteristic classes a (respectively O). In [10] Milnor shows that aN,,f, is almost always a homotopy sphere. In particular, if m=n and a, / ECIm (1Tnl(SOnc1) -*ITn-1(SOn)), then aNo,: is a homotopy sphere of dimension (2n 1). Let A2n_ -1 be the set of all such spheres. It is the object of this note to investigate these spheres. It is shown in [12] (and [8] by quite different methods) that A2n-1 is a subgroup Of 02ni, the group of homotopy (2n 1) spheres, whose elements represent obstructions to smoothing (n -1) connected PL manifolds of dimension 2n where n skeleton can be smoothed. It is of interest, then, to know what the subgroup A2n -1 is. In this connection we prove