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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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Is the diffeomorphism group of the Euclidean space generated by two simpler subgroups?

Consider the group $\mathrm{Diff}(\mathbb R^n)$ of smooth diffeomorphisms. It has two interesting subgroups: the orthogonal group $O(n)$, the group of "diffeomorphisms applied along each axis" $\math …
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Embeddings of exotic spheres

Let $\{S^n_u \mid u\in \text{some indexing set} \}$ be the set of all non-diffeomorphic $n$-spheres. Define $k_u$ to be the smallest number such that there exists a smooth embedding $S^n_u\hookrightar …
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