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Show that the rational cohomology ring $H^*(M;\mathbb{Q})$ needs at least two generators
Let $M$ be a simply connected closed Riemannian manifold. How does one find a necessary condition going both ways that may be imposed on $M$ (perhaps on the curvature of $M$ and on torsion) which ...