Conjecture on spheres with unique smooth structures

For an integer n>4n>4, let SnS^n denote the nn-dimensional sphere, and say that it has a unique smooth structure when every smooth manifold homeomorphic to SnS^n is diffeomorphic to it. Unique smooth structure conjecture. For dimensions greater than 44, the only spheres with a unique smooth structure are S5S^5, S6S^6, S12S^{12}, S56S^{56}, and S61S^{61}. This conjecture extends the dimensions currently known to have unique smooth structures; the paper establishes the claim through dimension 6161, while work of Behrens, Hill, Hopkins, and Mahowald indicates that the next such sphere, if it exists, has dimension at least 126126.

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Guozhen Wang and Zhouli Xu, “The triviality of the 61-stem in the stable homotopy groups of spheres”, arXiv:1601.02184 (2017).

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