Questions tagged [pl-manifolds]
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Can the product of an exotic torus and a circle be the standard torus?
As discussed in this question from last week, if $M$ is a closed manifold such that $M\times S^1$ is homeomorphic to the torus $T^{n+1}$, then $M$ is homeomorphic to $T^n$. Is the corresponding ...
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Is there a constructive proof that in four dimensions, the PL and the smooth category are equivalent?
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Famously, the categories of 4-dimensional smooth manifolds and 4-dimensional piecewise linear manifolds are equivalent. Is there a constructive proof for this theorem or does it depend on the ...
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Torus trick without surgery theory
It follows from surgery theory that in dimension $\geq 5$ every closed PL manifold homotopy equivalent to a torus has a finite cover which is PL homeomorphic to a torus. This is an important ...