A geometric filtration of
Let Fⁿ be a connected, smooth and closed n-dimensional manifold. We call Fⁿ a manifold with property when it has the following property: if is any smooth closed m-dimensional manifold with m > n and is a smooth involution whose fixed point set is Fⁿ, then m = 2n. Examples of manifolds with this property are: the real, complex and quaternionic even-dimensional projective spaces , and , and the connected sum of and any number of copies of Sⁿ × Sⁿ, where Sⁿ is the n-sphere and n is not...