On the structure of 5-dimensional Poincaré duality spaces

DOI10.1007/BF02565871zbMath0507.57012MaRDI QIDQ1837432

Ralph Stoecker

Publication date: 1982

Published in: Commentarii Mathematici Helvetici (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://eudml.org/doc/139918

zbMATH Keywords

second Stiefel-Whitney classSpivak normal fibrationfirst exotic classhomotopy type of a closed smooth manifoldsimply connected 5-dimensional Poincare duality spaces

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Classification of homotopy type (55P15) Characteristic classes and numbers in differential topology (57R20) Surgery and handlebodies (57R65) Embeddings in differential topology (57R40) Poincaré duality spaces (57P10)

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