Quadratic forms of closed manifolds

In this paper it is shown that for any integral-valued unimodular quadratic form and any number n of the form 8k + 4 (where k1), there exists a smooth closed n-dimensional manifold with this quadratic form. The proof is based on the construction (with the help of the plumbing construction) of smooth closed three-connected eight-dimensional manifolds with given form.Translated from Zapiski Nauchnykh Seminarov Leningradskogo Otdeleniya Matematicheskogo Instituta im. V. A. Steklova AN SSSR, Vol. 122, pp. 104–108, 1982.