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On the topology of manifolds with positive isotropic curvature
Author(s):
Siddartha
Gadgil;
Harish
Seshadri
Journal:
Proc. Amer. Math. Soc.
137
(2009),
1807-1811.
MSC (2000):
Primary 53C21
Posted:
December 23, 2008
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Abstract:
We show that a closed orientable Riemannian  -manifold,  , with positive isotropic curvature and free fundamental group is homeomorphic to the connected sum of copies of  .
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Siddartha
Gadgil
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore-560012, India
Email:
gadgil@math.iisc.ernet.in
Harish
Seshadri
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore-560012, India
Email:
harish@math.iisc.ernet.in
DOI:
10.1090/S0002-9939-08-09799-2
PII:
S 0002-9939(08)09799-2
Received by editor(s):
July 29, 2008
Posted:
December 23, 2008
Communicated by:
Jon G. Wolfson
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2008,
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