On differentiable imbeddings of simply-connected manifolds

Imbeddings, Immersions, and Cobordism of Differentiable Manifolds

On Simply-connected 4-manifolds

This paper concerns (but does not succeed in performing) the diffeomorphism classification of closed, oriented, differential, simply-connected 4-manifolds. It arises out of the observation (due to Pontrjagin and Milnor [2]) that if two such manifolds Mx and M2 have isomorphic quadratic forms of intersection numbers on #2(Jft-), then there is a map / : M1-^-Mi which is a homotopy equivalence and...

Differentiable Imbeddings

1. Terminology. V and M will be differentiable manifolds of dimension n and m respectively; differentiable meaning always of class C. For simplicity, we assume V compact and without boundary. We shall have to consider several categories of maps: (1) the category of continuous maps, (2) the category of topological imbeddings, (3) the category of topological immersions: a map ƒ: F—>M is a topolog...

On Non-formal Simply Connected Manifolds

We construct examples of non-formal simply connected and compact oriented manifolds of any dimension bigger or equal to 7.

Simply Connected Manifolds of Positive Scalar Curvature

Hitchin proved that if M is a spin manifold with positive scalar curvature, then the A^O-characteristic number a(M) vanishes. Gromov and Lawson conjectured that for a simply connected spin manifold M of dimension > 5, the vanishing of a(M) is sufficient for the existence of a Riemannian metric on M with positive scalar curvature. We prove this conjecture using techniques from stable homotopy th...