Smooth manifolds homotopy equivalent to products of spheres
classification
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bundleshomotopymanifoldssmoothspheretimesequivalentproducts
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We classify, up to almost diffeomorphism, the smooth closed oriented manifolds homotopy equivalent to each of the sphere products $S^{4k-1}\times S^{4k}$, $S^{4k}\times S^{4k}$, and $S^{4k}\times S^{4k+1}$. In each case we realize the image of the normal-invariant map in the smooth surgery exact sequence by explicit families of manifolds: sphere bundles over $S^{4k}$; pinch maps and Milnor plumbings of disk bundles; and Novikov sphere bundles together with connected sums of homotopy spheres.
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