Homotopy smoothing certain PL-manifolds
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- by James A. Schafer
- Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 50 (1975), 399-402
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-1975-0368020-9
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Abstract:
It is shown any simply connected almost parallelizable PL-manifold of dimension $4k + 2 \ne {2^j} - 2 \geq 6$ has the homotopy type of a smooth manifold if and only if $M$ is stably parallelizable.References
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Bibliographic Information
- © Copyright 1975 American Mathematical Society
- Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 50 (1975), 399-402
- MSC: Primary 57D10
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-1975-0368020-9
- MathSciNet review: 0368020