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Whitehead squares in Thom complexes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2009

W. A. Sutherland
W. A. Sutherland
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New College, Oxford, OX1 3BN
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One of the aims of this paper is to examine the following conjecture, attributed to Mahowald on p. 255 of (2), Part 2. Let M be a closed connected smooth manifold of odd dimension q (q≠l,3,7) and with tangent bundle τ. Let the inclusion of a compactified fibre in the Thorn complex of τ be written μ: Sq → Tτ.

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Proceedings of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society , Volume 24 , Issue 3 , October 1981 , pp. 221 - 229
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Copyright © Edinburgh Mathematical Society 1981

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