The classification of smooth structures on a homotopy complex projective space (1510.03032v1)

Abstract: We classify, up to diffeomorphism, all closed smooth manifolds homeomorphic to the complex projective $n$-space $\mathbb{C}\textbf{P}^n$, where $n=3$ and $4$. Let $M^{2n}$ be a closed smooth $2n$-manifold homotopy equivalent to $\mathbb{C}\textbf{P}^n$. We show that, up to diffeomorphism, $M^{6}$ has a unique differentiable structure and $M^{8}$ has at most two distinct differentiable structures. We also show that, up to concordance, there exist at least two distinct differentiable structures on a finite sheeted cover $N^{2n}$ of $\mathbb{C}\textbf{P}^n$ for $n=4, 7$ or $8$ and six distinct differentiable structures on $N^{10}$.