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- From: hussein@bora.inria.fr (Hussein Yahia)
- Newsgroups: sci.math
- Subject: Freedman-Donaldson Theorem
- Keywords: Exotic R^4, differential structures, topology
- Message-ID: <4173@seti.UUCP>
- Date: 10 Sep 92 12:06:42 GMT
- Sender: news@seti.UUCP
- Organization: Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et Automatique -- Rocquencourt, France
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- Hi everyone,
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- I'm interested in understanding the proof of the famous Freedman-Donaldson
- theorem about "fake R^4", that is the existence of exotic diffentiable
- structures on R^4. (For others R^n , n different of 4, all differentiable
- structures are always diffeomorphic to the standard one). I tried to read
- a book "Connections, Definite Forms, and Four-manifolds" by T. Petrie and
- J. Randall (Oxford Science Publications) but it is quite a little bit
- too difficult for me.
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- Could someone give me a list of references leading to a proof of that theorem
- for somebody like me who is just at the level of Volumes 1-2 of Spivak's
- Course on Differential Geometry and Hirsh's Differential Topology (Springer
- Verlag) ?
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- Thank you very much in advance.
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- Hussein Yahia
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- INRIA BP 105
- 78153 Le Chesnay Cedex
- France
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- E-mail: hussein@bora.inria.fr
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