6-manifolds: 2-connected
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1 Introduction
Tex syntax errorbe the set of diffeomorphism classes of closed smooth simply-connected 2-connected 6-manifolds
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2 Construction and examples
The following gives a complete list of 2-connected 6-manifolds up to diffeomorphism:
- , the standard 6-sphere.
- , the
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-fold connected sum of .
3 Invariants
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, - the intersection form of
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4 Classification
Recall that the following theorem was stated in other words in the introduction:
Theorem 4.1 [Smale1962a, Corolary 1.3]. The semi-group of 2-connected 6-manifolds is generated by .
Hence if denotes the natural numbers we obtain a bijection
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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. In particular, there is a bijection
Proof.
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5.2 Mapping class groups
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where by definition is the subgroup of isotopy classes induced the identity on and is the group of homotopy -spheres.
In particular .
For more information about the extensions in above, see [Krylov2003], [Johnson1983] and [Crowley2009].
6 References
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- [Crowley2009] D. Crowley, On the mapping class groups of for , (2009). Available at the arXiv:0905.0423.
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