New York Journal of Mathematics
Volume 9 (2003) 271-293

  

Himadri Kumar Mukerjee

Classification of homotopy Dold manifolds


Published: November 19, 2003
Keywords: Normal Invariant, Surgery Obstruction, Browder-Livesay Invariant
Subject: Primary: 55P10, 55P25, Secondary: 55S99, 57R19, 57R67

Abstract
In his Math. Zeitschr. paper of 1956 A. Dold defined manifolds for the purpose of generating unoriented cobordism groups. In the present paper a complete piecewise linear and topological classification and partial smooth classification of manifolds homotopy equivalent to a Dold manifold have been done by determining: (1) the normal invariants of the Dold manifolds, (2) the surgery obstruction of a normal invariant and (3) the action of the Wall surgery obstruction groups on the diffeomorphism, piecewise linear and topological homeomorphism classes of homotopy Dold manifolds (to be made precise in the body of the paper).

Author information

Department of Mathematics, North-Eastern Hill University, NEHU Campus, Shillong-793022, India.
himadri@nehu.ac.in