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Past exam of the topology and Groups and Algebraic Topology course of the University of Oxford / 2007 / B / 8 / ii / Solution

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No. Its top nonzero group would force dimension three. Poincare duality requires H2​≅H1, and the universal coefficient theorem gives H1≅Hom(H1​,Z)=Z, since H0​ is free. This contradicts the proposed vanishing of H2​. Equivalently its listed Betti numbers give Euler characteristic −1, impossible for a closed oriented odd-dimensional manifold.

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