Dold manifold

In mathematics, a Dold manifold is one of the manifolds P(m,n) = (S^m×CPⁿ)/τ (where τ acts as −1 on the sphere S^m and a complex conjugation on complex projective space CPⁿ) constructed by Dold (1956) that he used to give explicit generators for Thom's unoriented cobordism ring.

References

Dold, Albrecht (1956), "Erzeugende der Thomschen Algebra N", Mathematische Zeitschrift, 65 (1): 25–35, doi:10.1007/BF01473868, ISSN 0025-5874, MR 0079269

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