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

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Authors Kasilingam Ramesh

Publication date 9 June 2016

Published in Osaka Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1510.03031, https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.ojm/1461781789

zbMATH Keywords

concordancehomotopy sphereinertia groupsmooth structures

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Differential topological aspects of diffeomorphisms (57R50) Differentiable structures in differential topology (57R55) Homotopy spheres, Poincaré conjecture (57R60) Surgery and handlebodies (57R65)

Abstract: Let $M^{2n}$ denote a closed $(n-1)$-connected smoothable topological $2n$-manifold. We show that the group $mathcalC(M^{2n})$ of concordance classes of smoothings of $M^{2n}$ is isomorphic to the group of smooth homotopy spheres $overline{Theta}_{2n}$ for $n=4$ or $5$, the concordance inertia group $I_c(M^{2n})=0$ for $n=3$, $4$, $5$ or $11$ and the homotopy inertia group $I_h(M^{2n})=0$ 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 $H^n(M^{2n};mathbbZ)congmathbbZ$, the inertia group $I(M^{2n})congmathbb{Z}_2$. 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 $pi$-manifold, $M^{14}$ has exactly two distinct smooth structures.

Review text

Let \(M\) be a \(2n\)-dimensional \((n-1)\)-connected closed smoothable topological manifold. The author proves some results on smooth structures on such manifolds \(M\). Here are two typical results. Theorem 2.7 (a short version): The concordance classes of smoothing of \(M^{2n}\) is in one-to-one correspondence with the Kervaire-Milnor group \(\Theta_{2n}\) for \(n=4,5\). Theorem 4.7: Let \(n>3\) and be such that \(\Theta_n=\Theta_{n+1}=0\). If \(n\neq 0,4\mod 8\) then the set of diffeomorphism classes of smooth structures on \(M\) is in one-to-one correspondence with \(\Theta_{2n}\).

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