Abstract
One construct closed aspherical PL-manifolds which are not homotopy equivalent to closed smooth manifolds. Examples of closed aspherical T0P-manifolds which are not homeomorphic to closed PL-manifolds are also given.
1980 Mathematics Subject Classification
- 55D20
- 57C99
- 57A99
- 20E40
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Davis, M.W., Hausmann, JC. (1989). Aspherical manifolds without smooth or PL structure. In: Carlsson, G., Cohen, R., Miller, H., Ravenel, D. (eds) Algebraic Topology. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol 1370. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0085224
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