On the inertia group of a product of spheres
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Abstract:
In this paper it is proved that the smooth connected sum of a product of ordinary spheres with an exotic combinatorial sphere is never diffeomorphic to the original product. This result is extended and compared to certain related examples.References
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- © Copyright 1971 American Mathematical Society
- Journal: Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 156 (1971), 137-153
- MSC: Primary 57.10
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9947-1971-0275453-9
- MathSciNet review: 0275453