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 9999 congruence classes of dimensions modulo 192192. Wang–Xu conjecture. Very exotic spheres exist in all dimensions greater than 44, except dimensions 55, 66, 1111, 1212, 2727, 4343, 5656, and 6161. This conjecture concerns the detection of elements in the cokernel of the stable J\mathrm{J}-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 102102; 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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