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arxiv: 2606.10239 · v1 · pith:Y6XS23GUnew · submitted 2026-06-08 · 🧮 math.AT · math.GT

Smooth manifolds homotopy equivalent to products of spheres

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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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