On the nonimmersion of products of real projective spaces

Song, Hyun-Jong; Wilson, W. Stephen

doi:10.1090/S0002-9947-1990-0979967-7

On the nonimmersion of products of real projective spaces
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Abstract:

In this paper we utilize $B{P^*}(\;)$, a generalized cohomology theory associated with the Brown-Peterson spectrum to prove a nonimmersion theorem for products of real projective spaces.

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