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Jon Cohen
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When is a manifold a tangent bundle?

Given a (smooth) manifold $M$, are there any sufficient, intrinsic properties that would tell you there exists a (smooth) manifold $N$ such that $M$ is diffeomorphic to $TN?$ There are some obvious necessary conditions (like $M$ needs to be even-dimensional), but I'm more interested in whether any sufficient conditions are known.

Jon Cohen
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