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Crosscap stability

  • Curtis Pro , Michael Sill and Frederick Wilhelm EMAIL logo
From the journal Advances in Geometry

Abstract

We provide an alternative proof that crosscaps are diffeomorphically stable.

MSC 2010: 53C20

P. Eberlein


Acknowledgements

We are grateful to Stefano Vidussi for several conversations about exotic differential structures on ℝP4. We are grateful to a referee of this paper for making us aware of the results in [21].

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Received: 2015-5-20
Revised: 2015-7-8
Published Online: 2017-4-19
Published in Print: 2017-3-28

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