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Revision as of 14:16, 21 November 2009
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1 Introduction
I should like to start this exotic spheres page by a link to my exotic spheres home page.
This already has a large collection of original source material, but some of it would be inappropriate to put on the Manifold Atlas
directly.
Andrew Ranicki
2 Construction and examples
3 Invariants
Signature, Kervaire invaiant, -invariant
4 Classification
[Kervaire&Milnor1963], [Levine1983]
5 Further discussion
... is welcome
6 References
- [Kervaire&Milnor1963] M. A. Kervaire and J. W. Milnor, Groups of homotopy spheres. I, Ann. of Math. (2) 77 (1963), 504–537. MR0148075 (26 #5584) Zbl 0115.40505
- [Levine1983] J. P. Levine, Lectures on groups of homotopy spheres, Algebraic and geometric topology (New Brunswick, N.J., 1983), Lecture Notes in Math., 1126 (1983), 62–95. MR802786 (87i:57031) Zbl 0576.57028
- [Milnor1956] J. Milnor, On manifolds homeomorphic to the -sphere, Ann. of Math. (2) 64 (1956), 399–405. MR0082103 (18,498d) Zbl 0072.18402
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