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- From: ara@zurich.ai.mit.edu (Allan Adler)
- Newsgroups: sci.math
- Subject: exotic R^4
- Message-ID: <ARA.92Sep12125220@camelot.ai.mit.edu>
- Date: 12 Sep 92 17:52:20 GMT
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- At the moment I am in touch with this Donaldson-Freedman stuff only by rumor.
- I am under the impression that the following assertions are true:
- (1) There is a manifold X homeomorphic to R^4 but not diffeomorphic to R^4.
- (2) All manifolds homeomorphic to R^5 are diffeomorphic to R^5.
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- Assuming that is correct (which I do not guarantee), then it seems to me that
- XxR is necessarily diffeomorphic to R^5, i.e. X is diffeomorphic to a
- hypersurface in R^5. So has anyone written down an explicit mapping
- f:R^5->R such that X is the preimage of 0 under f? How good or bad
- could such a mapping f be? For example, could it be a polynomial?
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- Allan Adler
- ara@altdorf.ai.mit.edu
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