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A homotopy classification of certain 7-manifolds

Author(s): Bernd Kruggel
Journal: Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 349 (1997), 2827-2843.
MSC (1991): Primary 57N65, 57R19
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Abstract: This paper gives a homotopy classification of Wallach spaces and a partial homotopy classification of closely related spaces obtained by free $S^1$-actions on $SU(3)$ and on $S^3\times S^5$.

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Bernd Kruggel
Affiliation: Mathematisches Institut der Heinrich Heine Universität, Düsseldorf, Germany
Address at time of publication: Mathematisches Institut der Heinrich Heine Universität Düsseldorf, Universitätsstr.1, 40225 Düsseldorf, Germany
Email: kruggel@mx.cs.uni-duesseldorf.de

DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9947-97-01962-4
PII: S 0002-9947(97)01962-4
Keywords: Algebraic topology
Received by editor(s): January 25, 1996
Copyright of article: Copyright 1997, American Mathematical Society

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