Topological Rigidity for Non-aspherical Manifolds
Topological Rigidity for Non-aspherical Manifolds
The Borel Conjecture predicts that closed aspherical manifolds are topological rigid. We want to investigate when a non-aspherical oriented connected closed manifold M is topological rigid in the following sense. If f : N ! M is an orientation preserving homotopy equivalence with a closed oriented manifold as target, then …