On complexes equivalent to -bundles over

N Kitchloo, K Shankar - International Mathematics Research …, 2001 - academic.oup.com
N Kitchloo, K Shankar
International Mathematics Research Notices, 2001academic.oup.com
S 3-bundles over S 4 have played an important role in topology and geometry since Milnor
showed that the total spaces of such bundles can be exotic spheres. Until recently, there
was only one exotic sphere known to admit a metric of nonnegative sectional curvature. In a
recent paper, K. Grove and W. Ziller constructed metrics of nonnegative curvature on the
total space of S 3-bundles over S 4. They also asked for a classification of these bundles up
to homotopy equivalence, homeomorphism and diffeomorphism. They also asked the …
Abstract
-bundles over have played an important role in topology and geometry since Milnor showed that the total spaces of such bundles can be exotic spheres. Until recently, there was only one exotic sphere known to admit a metric of nonnegative sectional curvature. In a recent paper, K. Grove and W. Ziller constructed metrics of nonnegative curvature on the total space of -bundles over . They also asked for a classification of these bundles up to homotopy equivalence, homeomorphism and diffeomorphism. They also asked the following question: the Berger space, Sp(2)/Sp(1), is a 7-manifold that has the cohomology ring of an -bundle over , but does it admit the structure of such a bundle? In this paper we show that any 2-connected, 7-manifold with finite fourth cohomology group is PL-homeomorphic to an -bundle over if and only if its linking form is equivalent to a standard form. As a corollary we show that the Berger space has the PL type of an - bundle over . We also derive necessary and sufficient conditions for any CW complex to be homotopy equivalent to an -bundle over . One of our results has also been obtained independently by D. Crowley and C. Escher.
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