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The study of differentiable manifolds and differentiable maps. One fundamental problem is that of classifying manifolds up to diffeomorphism. Differential topology is what Poincaré understood as topology or “analysis situs”.
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Why is the dual of a torus the same as its fundamental group?
This is just a minor elaboration on David Ben-Zvi's answer. You can see the duality between the fundamental group of $T$ and the character lattice by composing based loops $\mathbb{R}/\mathbb{Z} \to …
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Are there good product rules on the $k$-sphere?
One condition we might like for a product on a manifold to be nice is that it admits a 2-sided identity element. Another condition we might like is that left multiplication is nonsingular near the id …
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Theoretical physics: Why not just $\mathbb{R}^4$?
I can answer your literal question. Not everyone studies exotic $\mathbb{R}^4$, because the universe of mathematical and theoretical physics is a big one with many interesting ideas, and there's no r …
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Triangulations of exotic 4-spheres
Here is my comment expanded to answer form: The question of existence of exotic 4-spheres (i.e., the smooth Poincaré conjecture) is still open, and (according to Wikipedia) the existence of exotic PL …
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compact riemann surface of genus g
Choose $2g+2$ distinct complex numbers $z_i$, and take a double cover of $\mathbb{P}^1$ branched at these points. This is typically written as a plane curve with an affine patch defined by $y^2 = \pr …
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Can we decompose Diff(MxN)?
I'm not an expert, but my impression was that you can't reasonably expect anything like a decomposition in general. Here is a big list of references on automorphisms of manifolds, compiled by Andre H …
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