From: Yuli Rudyak <july@mathi.uni-heidelberg.DE>
Date: Fri, 22 May 98 17:40:12 +0200
Subject: Re: expl of manifold

This is the answer for the question stated in an old lettter
(Nowember 21).
Such manifolds do not exist, see
Massey, On Stiefel--Whitney classes... , Amer J. Math, 1960 (Theorem II)
Yuli Rudyak

The original posting follows:

Date: Fri, 21 Nov 1997 11:35:07 -0700
From: George Peschke <George.Peschke@ualberta.ca>
Subject: codim 1 Stiefel Whitney class

Can anyone give an example of a smooth manifold with the
following properties

        dimension n is even
        closed
        orientable
        (n-1)st Stiefel-Whitney class is not 0


Brad Lackey
George Peschke
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