6-manifolds: 2-connected
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1 Introduction
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, see 6-manifolds: 1-connected.
2 Construction and examples
The following gives a complete list of 2-connected 6-manifolds up to diffeomorphism:
- , the standard 6-sphere.
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3 Invariants
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, - the Euler characteristic of is given by
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, - the intersection form of is isomorphic to the sum of b-copies of
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, the standard skew-symmetric hyperbolic form on .
4 Classification
Recall that the following theorem was stated in other words in the introduction:
Theorem 4.1 [Smale1962a, Corolary 1.3].
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Hence if denotes the natural numbers we obtain a bijection
5 Further discussion
5.1 Topological 2-connected 6-manifolds
Let be the set of homeomorphism classes of topological 2-connected 6-manifolds.
Theorem 5.1. Every topological 2-connected 6-manifold admits a smooth structure which is unique up to diffoemorphism. That is, there is a bijection
Proof. For any such manifold we have and so is smoothable (see 6-manifolds: 1-connected). Any two homeomorphic manifolds have the same Euler Characteristic and so by Theorem 4.1 are diffeomorphic.
5.2 Mapping class groups
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References
- [Smale1962a] S. Smale, On the structure of manifolds, Amer. J. Math. 84 (1962), 387–399. MR0153022 (27 #2991) Zbl 0109.41103