Mathematics – Differential Geometry
Scientific paper
2002-04-30
Amer. J. Math. 126 (2004), 395-416
Mathematics
Differential Geometry
LaTeX, 17 pages. v2: proofs of corollaries added
Scientific paper
We compute the Eells-Kuiper invariant of the Berger manifold SO(5)/SO(3) and
determine that it is diffeomorphic to the total space of an S^3-bundle over
S^4. This answers a question raised by K. Grove and W. Ziller.
Goette Sebastian
Kitchloo Nitu
Shankar Krishnan
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