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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2004 iii Paper 16 3 c Solution by
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This sequence cannot occur. The same duality and coefficient calculation gives when . More generally the third homology of a closed oriented four-manifold is torsion-free, whereas the proposed nonzero third group is torsion. Either observation rules it out.
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