Diffeomorphism type of the Berger space
Abstract
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 S3-bundle over S4. This answers a question raised by K. Grove and W. Ziller.
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