Inertia groups of high-dimensional complex projective spaces

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Abstract: For a complex projective space the inertia group, the homotopy inertia group and the concordance inertia group are isomorphic. In complex dimension 4n+1, these groups are related to computations in stable cohomotopy. Using stable homotopy theory, we make explicit computations to show that the inertia group is non-trivial in many cases. In complex dimension 9, we deduce some results on geometric structures on homotopy complex projective spaces and complex hyperbolic manifolds.


Let \(I(M)\) denote the inertia group of a closed smooth manifold \(M\). Theorem A. The group \(I(\mathbb C\mathbb P^9)\) is isomorphic to either \(\mathbb Z/2\) or \(\mathbb Z/4\), the group \(I(\mathbb C\mathbb P^{13})\) contains \(\mathbb Z/2\). Theorem B. There are infinitely many values of \(n\) for which there exist nontrivial elements in the inertia group of \(\mathbb C\mathbb P^{4n+1}\). Note the following nice applications. Theorem 4.3: There exist three homotopy 18-dimensional spheres \(\Sigma_i, i=1,2,3\) such that the following is true: (i) The four manifolds \(\mathbb C\mathbb P^9\) and \(\mathbb C\mathbb P^9\# \Sigma_i, i=1,2,3\) are pairwise nondiffeomorphic. (ii) The manifolds \(\mathbb C\mathbb P^9\#\Sigma_2\) and \(\mathbb C\mathbb P^9\#\Sigma_3\) do not admit a metric of nonnegative scalar curvature but \(\mathbb C\mathbb P^9\#\Sigma_1\) does. Theorem 4.4: Let \(\Sigma_i\) be as in Theorem 4.3. Given a positive real number \(\epsilon\) , there exists a closed complex hyperbolic manifold \(M\) of complex dimension 9 such that the following is true: (i) The manifolds \(M\) and \(M\#\Sigma_i, i=1,2,3\) are pairwise nondiffeomorphic. (ii) Each of the manifolds \(M\#\Sigma_i, i=1,2,3\) supports a negatively curved Riemannian metric whose sectional curvatures all lie in the closed interval \([-4-\epsilon,-1+\epsilon]\).











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