Wang–Xu conjecture for very exotic spheres
Wang–Xu conjecture for very exotic spheres
Let a very exotic sphere mean a homotopy sphere that does not bound a parallelizable manifold. The preceding results show that very exotic spheres exist in at least congruence classes of dimensions modulo . Wang–Xu conjecture. Very exotic spheres exist in all dimensions greater than , except dimensions , , , , , , , and . This conjecture concerns the detection of elements in the cokernel of the stable -homomorphism and would determine precisely the dimensions in which very exotic spheres occur. The low-dimensional computations of Isaksen, Wang, and Xu, together with work of Ravenel and recent results, verify it up to dimension ; the assertion remains open in general.
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Prasit Bhattacharya, Irina Bobkova and J. D. Quigley, “New infinite families in the stable homotopy groups of spheres”, arXiv:2404.10062 (2026).
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