On the Topology of Manifolds with Positive Isotropic Curvature Siddartha Gadgil and Harish Seshadri
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We show that a closed orientable Riemannian n-manifold, n ≥ 5, with positive isotropic curvature and free fundamental group is homeomorphic to the connected sum of copies of S × S.
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