Projective planes and their look-alikes
Abstract
Description
We classify all closed 1-connected manifolds $M$ which look like projective planes, i.e. with integral homology $H_*(M)=Z^3$. Furthermore, we give an explicit construction of these manifolds as Thom spaces of open disk bundles.
to appear in: Journal of Differential Geometry
to appear in: Journal of Differential Geometry