On a class of $5$-manifolds with $π_1=\mathbb Z$ with applications to knottings in $S^5$

Matthias Kreck, Yang Su

Published 2014-11-06Version 1

We classify $5$-manifolds with fundamental group $\mathbb Z$ and $\pi_{2}$ a finitely generated abelian group in terms of the cup product on the second cohomology of the universal covering. The classification result is applied to study simple knots $k \colon S^{3} \subset S^{5}$ and the question, which compact topological or smooth orientable $5$-manifold is a topological or smooth fibre bundle over the circle with simply-connected fibre.