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Classification of Bott Manifolds up to Dimension 8

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 December 2014

Suyoung Choi*
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Ajou University, San 5, Woncheondong, Yeongtonggu, Suwon 443-749, Republic of Korea (schoi@ajou.ac.kr)

Abstract

We show that three- and four-stage Bott manifolds are classified up to diffeomorphism by their integral cohomology rings. In addition, any cohomology ring isomorphism between two three-stage Bott manifolds can be realized by a diffeomorphism between the Bott manifolds.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Edinburgh Mathematical Society 2015 

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