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Visualize how the 5d Dold manifold and Wu manifold are cobordant via a 6d manifolds with boundaries
Are there simple intuitions and arguments to visualize why the following two 5-manifolds are cobordant to each other with the oriented structures? (They can be two boundaries of 6-dimensional oriented ...
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topological type of smooth manifolds with prescribed homotopy type and pontryagin class
Can someone help explain the following result:
If the dimension is at least five, there are at most finitely many different smooth manifolds with given homotopy type and Pontryagin classes.
Thank ...