Conjecture on spheres with unique smooth structures
Conjecture on spheres with unique smooth structures
For an integer , let denote the -dimensional sphere, and say that it has a unique smooth structure when every smooth manifold homeomorphic to is diffeomorphic to it. Unique smooth structure conjecture. For dimensions greater than , the only spheres with a unique smooth structure are , , , , and . This conjecture extends the dimensions currently known to have unique smooth structures; the paper establishes the claim through dimension , while work of Behrens, Hill, Hopkins, and Mahowald indicates that the next such sphere, if it exists, has dimension at least .
Sources & referencesView supporting material
Primary source
Guozhen Wang and Zhouli Xu, “The triviality of the 61-stem in the stable homotopy groups of spheres”, arXiv:1601.02184 (2017).
Progress summary
Nothing recorded yet. Refresh searches the literature and the public web for attempts on this problem, and writes the first summary here.
Solutions 0
Sign in to submit a solution.
No solutions have been posted yet.