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Michael Albanese
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Does a manifold which bounds always admit a free involution?

If a closed smooth manifold $M$ admits a smooth free involution $T$, then it bounds. In fact, the mapping cylinder of the quotient map $M \to M/T$ is the manifold whose boundary is $M$. Is the converse true? If not, then could someone give an example of a closed smooth manifold which bounds but does not admit any free involution.

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