Inertia groups and smooth structures of (n-1)-connected 2n-manifolds

Abstract: Let

M^{2 n}

denote a closed

(n - 1)

-connected smoothable topological

2 n

-manifold. We show that the group

m a t h c a l C (M^{2 n})

of concordance classes of smoothings of

M^{2 n}

is isomorphic to the group of smooth homotopy spheres

o v e r l i n e {T h e t a}_{2 n}

for

n = 4

or

5

, the concordance inertia group

I_{c} (M^{2 n}) = 0

for

n = 3

,

4

,

5

or

11

and the homotopy inertia group

I_{h} (M^{2 n}) = 0

for

n = 4

. On the way, following Wall's approach cite{Wal67} we present a new proof of the main result in cite{KS07}, namely, for

n = 4

,

8

and

H^{n} (M^{2 n}; m a t h b b Z) c o n g m a t h b b Z

, the inertia group

I (M^{2 n}) c o n g m a t h b b Z_{2}

. We also show that, up to orientation-preserving diffeomorphism,

M^{8}

has at most two distinct smooth structures;

M^{10}

has exactly six distinct smooth structures and then show that if

M^{14}

is a

p i

-manifold,

M^{14}

has exactly two distinct smooth structures.

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