English

Simply-connected manifolds with large homotopy stable classes

Geometric Topology 2021-10-22 v3

Abstract

For every k2k \geq 2 and n2n \geq 2 we construct nn pairwise homotopically inequivalent simply-connected, closed 4k4k-dimensional manifolds, all of which are stably diffeomorphic to one another. Each of these manifolds has hyperbolic intersection form and is stably parallelisable. In dimension 44, we exhibit an analogous phenomenon for spinc^{c} structures on S2×S2S^2 \times S^2. For m1m\geq 1, we also provide similar (4m1)(4m{-}1)-connected 8m8m-dimensional examples, where the number of homotopy types in a stable diffeomorphism class is related to the order of the image of the stable JJ-homomorphism π4m1(SO)π4m1s\pi_{4m-1}(SO) \to \pi^s_{4m-1}.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2109.00654,
  title  = {Simply-connected manifolds with large homotopy stable classes},
  author = {Anthony Conway and Diarmuid Crowley and Mark Powell and Joerg Sixt},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2109.00654},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

Minor revision: corrected a mistake in the proof of Theorem 4.11 and improved exposition in Section 4. 27 pages

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