Abstract:
The main theorem states that if the Spivak normal fibration associated to a Poincaré complex admits a vector bundle structure, then the Poincaré complex is homotopy equivalent to the union of two smooth manifolds with their boundaries identified via a homotopy equivalence. The theorem is applied to the question of existence of smooth structures on Poincaré complexes.
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