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Title : Homotopy groups of highly connected manifolds
Abstract : We shall discuss a new method of computing (integral) homotopy
groups of certain manifolds in terms of the homotopy groups of spheres. The
techniques used in this computation also yield formulae for homotopy groups
of connected sums of sphere products and CW complexes of a similar type. In
all the families of spaces considered here, we verify a conjecture of J. C.
Moore. This is joint work with Somnath Basu.