Kervaire–Milnor:
OpenSmaleDiffS4.diffSphere_six_card_pi0Let be the group of all smooth diffeomorphisms of the round unit sphere with the topology. Then its set of path components (isotopy classes of diffeomorphisms) has exactly elements:
This is one of the groups , , that the source says were computed by relating them to Kervaire–Milnor's groups of homotopy spheres: (Cerf's pseudo-isotopy theorem together with Smale's -cobordism theorem and Kervaire–Milnor), and orientation-reversing diffeomorphisms double the count. It is a concrete higher-dimensional instance of the kind of computation that is open for .
Formalization Note ZerothHomotopy X is the set of path components of ; Nat.card is its cardinality (it would be if the set were infinite, so the statement also asserts finiteness).
import Mathlib import Definitions.Def_SmaleDiffS4_Basic open SmaleDiffS4
namespace SmaleDiffS4 theorem diffSphere_six_card_pi0 : Nat.card (ZerothHomotopy (DiffSphere 6)) = 56 := by sorry end SmaleDiffS4
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