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Is there an octonionic analog of the K3 surface, with implications for stable homotopy groups of spheres?

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Is there an octonionic analog of the K3 surface, with implications for stable homotopy groups of spheres?

Are higher categories useful?

Invertible matrices of natural numbers are permutations... why?

Finding the octonionic analog of the K3 surface, via (almost) hyperkahler geometry?

Example Wanted: When Does Čech Cohomology Fail to be the same as Derived Functor Cohomology?

Is the counit of geometric realization a Serre fibration?

Which stable homotopy groups are represented by parallelizable manifolds?

Torsors in Algebraic Geometry?

Homological algebra for commutative monoids?

Why is this not an algebraic space?

Are the mapping class groups of manifolds finitely presentable?

Why are quasitopological spaces needed in sheaf theoretic approaches to the h-principle?

Loop Spaces as Generalized Smooth spaces or as Infinite dimensional Manifolds?

A Peculiar Model Structure on Simplicial Sets?

Simplicial model of Hopf map?

Do all 3D TQFTs come from Reshetikhin-Turaev?

Do most manifolds have symmetries? or not?

Functorial Whitehead Tower?

Lax Functors and Equivalence of Bicategories?

How many model categories have the same weak equivalences?

What are the fibrant objects in the injective model structure?

Characterizing Groupoids via Quotients?

Integral cohomology ring of K(Z,3)

Easiest example where pseudo-isotopy fails to be the same as isotopy?

Why does the singular simplicial space geometrically realize to the original space?

A Model Category of Segal Spaces?

Elliptic Curves over F_1?

Categorifying the Reals via von Neumann Algebras?

How to see the quaternionic hopf map generates the stable 3-stem?

What is known about exotic spheres up to stable diffeomorphism?