Almost complex structures on connected sums of complex projective spaces

Abstract

We show that the m-fold connected sum $m\#\mathbb{C}{\mathbb{P}}^{2n}$ admits an almost complex structure if and only if m is odd.

9 pages, changes according to referee's suggestions, added Lemma 2.1, to appear in Ann. K-theory

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