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Can one glue De Rham cohomology classes on a differential manifolds?
Here is the great answer given by another of my brilliant friends:
Let $X$ be $\mathbb C, U_0$ be the open complement in $X$ of the closed disk $\bar D=\{z\in \mathbb C\vert \vert z\vert \leq1 \}$
and ...
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The convex hull of a manifold whose cobordism class is trivial
Implicit in the other responses is the fact that if $M$ bounds a convex manifold $W$, then $W$ is contractible and so M has the homology of a sphere. So any null-cobordant manifold that is not a ...
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The convex hull of a manifold whose cobordism class is trivial
There are exotic spheres (which are null cobordant) which do not bound a parallelisable manifold. Since the convex hull is contractible, it would be parallelisable if it were a manifold, so these guys ...
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Can one glue De Rham cohomology classes on a differential manifolds?
Here is the solution obtained by one of my brilliant geometer friends evoked in the question:
Take $X=S^2$, the unit $2$-sphere with equation $x_1^2+x_2 ^2+x_3^2=1$, and cover it by the three open ...
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Are the symmetric spaces $\operatorname{SU}(n)/{\operatorname{SO}(n)}$ always nontrivial in the bordism rings for $n>2$?
There is a fibration $SU(n) \overset p\to SU(n)/SO(n) \overset j\to BSO(n)$, where the $j$ is the classifying map of $p$, viewed as (the projection of) a principal $SO(n)$-bundle. The Stiefel–Whitney ...
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Can one glue De Rham cohomology classes on a differential manifolds?
This answer provides a positive answer to a refinement of the original question.
Recall that two closed differential $k$-forms $ω_0$, $ω_1$ on a smooth manifold $M$
have the same de Rham cohomology ...
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Can one glue De Rham cohomology classes on a differential manifolds?
No.
Make $M$ by gluing three strips to two discs to form a thrice-punctured sphere. Take three open sets $U_\lambda$, each made by both discs and two of the strips. Then each $U_\lambda$ is ...
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Converse to Hopf degree theorem
A manifold $M$ of dimension $>1$ with $H^1(M) \neq 0$ does not have the self-Hopf property. For if so, then there is a map $f: M \to S^1$ that induces a non-trivial homomorphism $f_*: H_1(M) \to \...
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Converse to Hopf degree theorem
See the second half of the answer for a complete characterisation of closed orientable manifolds with the Hopf property.
Note that $X$ having the Hopf property is equivalent to the injectivity of $\...
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Converse to Hopf degree theorem
$\mathbb{CP}^n$ has the self-Hopf property for $n$ odd.
See Theorem 2.2 of Self Maps of Projective Spaces
C. A. McGibbon Transactions of the American Mathematical Society
Vol. 271, No. 1 (May, 1982), ...
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