Aspherical manifolds that cannot be triangulated (Q2441259)

Galewski and Stern showed that, for \(n\geq 5\), the obstruction for a manifold \(M^n\) to have a simplicial triangulation was the Bockstein of its Kirby-Siebenmann obstruction \(\beta (\Delta)\in H^5(M^n,Ker \mu)\) where \(\mu: \theta_3^H\to \mathbb{Z}/2\) is the Rokhlin \(\mu\)-invariant coefficient homomorphism. They constructed a closed \(5\)-manifold \(M^5\) so that every \(n\)-manifold, with \(n\geq 5\), can be triangulated if and only if \(M^5\) can be triangulated. This happens if and only if the Rokhlin \(\mu\) invariant homomorphism is split. In 2013 \textit{C. Manolescu} in [``\(Pin(2)\)-equivariant Seiberg-Witten Floer homology and the triangulation conjecture'', \url{arXiv:1303.2354}] showed that the \(\mu\) homomorphism does not split, hence there are Galewski-Stern manifolds \(M^n\) that are not triangulable for each \(n\geq 5\). In the present paper, the authors apply hyperbolization techniques to the Galewski-Stern manifolds to show that there are closed aspherical \(n\)-manifolds that cannot be triangulated for each \(n\geq 6\). The question remain open in dimension \(5\).