{ "id": "math/9712255", "version": "v2", "published": "1997-12-16T21:52:49.000Z", "updated": "1999-03-01T00:00:00.000Z", "title": "Scharlemann's manifold is standard", "authors": [ "Selman Akbulut" ], "comment": "14 pages, published version", "journal": "Ann. of Math. (2) 149 (1999), no. 2, 497-510", "categories": [ "math.GT" ], "abstract": "In his 1974 thesis, Martin Scharlemann constructed a fake homotopy equivalence from a closed smooth manifold f:Q -> S^3 x S^1 # S^2 x S^2 and asked whether the manifold Q itself is diffeomorphic to S^3 x S^1 # S^2 x S^2. Here we answer this question affirmatively.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v2", "updated": "1999-03-01T00:00:00.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "keywords": [ "scharlemanns manifold", "fake homotopy equivalence", "closed smooth manifold", "martin scharlemann", "diffeomorphic" ], "tags": [ "journal article" ], "publication": { "publisher": "Princeton University and the Institute for Advanced Study", "journal": "Ann. Math." }, "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 14, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "adsabs": "1997math.....12255A" } } }