Tangential smoothings of $k$-fold connected sum of complex projective spaces

Abstract

This paper determines tangential structure set of $\#_k\mathbb{C}P^{n}$, for $3\leq n \leq 7$, by analyzing their stable cohomotopy groups and $KO$-groups. As a consequence, it establishes the existence of manifolds with tangential homotopy type but not homeomorphic to $\#_k\mathbb{C}P^{n}$ for $n=4,5$.