A minimal Brieskorn 5-sphere in the Gromoll-Meyer sphere and its applications

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We recognize the Gromoll-Meyer sphere Sigma^7 as the geodesic join of a simple closed geodesic and a minimal subsphere Sigma^5, which can be equivariantly identified with the Brieskorn sphere W^5_3. As applications we in particular determine the full isometry group of Sigma^7, classify all closed subgroups that act freely, determine the homotopy type of the corresponding orbit spaces, identify the Hirsch-Milnor involution in dimension 5 with the Calabi involution of W^5_3, and obtain explicit formulas for diffeomorphisms between the Brieskorn spheres W^5_3 and W^13_3 with standard Euclidean spheres.

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Differential Geometry, Geometric Topology

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http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/114097

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https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0606769
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