Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
4673305 Indagationes Mathematicae 2007 6 Pages PDF
Abstract

We define the dimension function for diffeological spaces, a simple but new invariant. We show then how it can be applied to prove that, for two different integers m and n the quotient spaces Rm/O(m) and Rn/O(n) are not diffeomorphic, and not diffeomorphic to the half-line [0, ∞[⊂ R.

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